Rob88
Structural
- Aug 18, 2003
- 1
G'Day from down under.
Must say this is a great forum... just spent 3 hours lurking through and do not envy the additional dramas of frost heave in design that we miss out on in Austrlalia!
Any way we use a thickened edge waffle pod slab on grade system with a rebate for brick veneer and wood frame housing. Typically 150mm (6"
bottom slab edge then a rebate horizontally in 150mm then another perendicular of 150mm. We pour all of this monolithically as it also forms a visual barrier for termites.
My questions are in relation to American practice:
1) Do you guys use a waffle pod system to create beams?
2) Dimensions of a thickened (or pier) slab on ground?
3) Do you guys use a rebate in your slabs?
4) I seem to be able to read alot about ICF formworking systems but there must still be people using edge form wood (like LVL)is it because ICF is the latest and greatest?
5) Does "Designing Floor Slabs on Grade" by Boyd.C.Ringo & Robert.B.Anderson answer all these Q's and more and therefore worth the price and wait to get it from Amizon?(Not avail in Aus)
I am contemplating attending world of Concrete in Orlando Florida in Feb 2004 (which is an expensive exercise for us)and I am trying to get a grasp of practices in the States to consider if it will be worthwhile launching my formwork product there (and I do not intend to name our system as I am not spamming.. I really would appreciate some professional insight into US methods).
Waiting in hope...
Rgrds
Rob
Must say this is a great forum... just spent 3 hours lurking through and do not envy the additional dramas of frost heave in design that we miss out on in Austrlalia!
Any way we use a thickened edge waffle pod slab on grade system with a rebate for brick veneer and wood frame housing. Typically 150mm (6"
bottom slab edge then a rebate horizontally in 150mm then another perendicular of 150mm. We pour all of this monolithically as it also forms a visual barrier for termites.My questions are in relation to American practice:
1) Do you guys use a waffle pod system to create beams?
2) Dimensions of a thickened (or pier) slab on ground?
3) Do you guys use a rebate in your slabs?
4) I seem to be able to read alot about ICF formworking systems but there must still be people using edge form wood (like LVL)is it because ICF is the latest and greatest?
5) Does "Designing Floor Slabs on Grade" by Boyd.C.Ringo & Robert.B.Anderson answer all these Q's and more and therefore worth the price and wait to get it from Amizon?(Not avail in Aus)
I am contemplating attending world of Concrete in Orlando Florida in Feb 2004 (which is an expensive exercise for us)and I am trying to get a grasp of practices in the States to consider if it will be worthwhile launching my formwork product there (and I do not intend to name our system as I am not spamming.. I really would appreciate some professional insight into US methods).
Waiting in hope...
Rgrds
Rob
