Mounting Parts in Design Software
Planning of transport anchor systems as well as connecting systems for precast concrete components has to be taken into account in a quite early stage of the project, because the precast concrete elements are generally not manufactured in their final position. Apart from dimensioning and the selection of the appropriate mounting parts it is, of course, also necessary to indicate such information properly in the corresponding plans so that the production process of the precast concrete components may run in the manufacturing shop without any misunderstandings and possible sources of error in due time.
Although the importance of an early planning is mandatory, this fact still is very often neglected - on the one hand, transport anchor systems are irrelevant for the static calculation of a building and, on the other hand, there is uncertainty and/or ignorance of the responsibilities for the security during transportation of a precast concrete element. However, the mentioned problem usually does not occurred in case of connecting systems, as they are more and more taken into account in the static verification of a building.
Irrespective of how important mounting parts are for precast concrete...
