Concentric strain due to shrinkage and/or temperature variations

Any floor slab whose shortening is obstructed by stiffening components, such as building cores or walls, will be subject to strain caused, for instance, by shrinkage. In this scenario, reinforced...

Precast prestressed concrete floor slabs (prestressed concrete hollow core floors) are primarily used in industrial and commercial construction, in residential construction, for garages and schools....

Over the years, the development of reinforced-concrete floors for multi-story building construction has given rise to a large number of different designs. When reinforced-concrete construction was...

The DafStb code of practice “Concrete floor slabs and roofs made of precast hollowcore slabs,” with date of issue January 2023, has been published by Beuth-Verlag in Berlin in three parts: Part 1:...

Buildings are subject to a wide range of constraint forces as a result of their distinct statically indeterminate structure and their complex, mostly monolithic support conditions. These actions are...