- Book Name: Design and Construction of Concrete Floors
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Design and Construction of Concrete Floors PDF

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1 Thinking about floor design
The floor’s dual role
A user-oriented approach
Beyond structural design
A balanced approach
Method versus performance specifications
Single-course floors
Standards
Lessons from roadbuilding
Remedies for bad work
Part I The uses of concrete floors
2 Non-industrial floors
Residential floors
Office floors
Floors for the retail trade
Institutional floors
3 Warehouse floors
Storage systems
Materials-handling systems
Battery-charging areas
The load-class system
4 Factory and special floors
Factory floor
Special floors
Part II Structural design
5 Structural design of ground-supported floors
Components
Structural types
Design methods
Design based on experience
Design considerations
6 Structural design of suspended floors
Types of suspended floors
Choosing a floor type
The design process
Design considerations
Part III Concrete for floors
7 Properties of plastic concrete
Workability
Finishability
Bleeding
Setting time
Plastic settlement
8 Properties of hardened concrete
Strength
Impact resistance
Modulus of elasticity
Drying shrinkage
Thermal coefficient
9 The components of concrete
Cement
Aggregates
Water
Admixtures
Fibres
10 Mix design and mixing
Mix design
Mixing
11 Transporting and placing concrete
Transporting concrete
Slab layout
Side forms
Tools for placing concrete
Compaction
The next step
12 Curing
Curing methods
How to choose a curing method
Timing
Part IV Joints and Cracks
13 Cracks
Plastic-shrinkage cracks
Plastic-settlement cracks
Crazing 209
Drying-shrinkage cracks
Thermal-contraction cracks
Structural cracks
Crack repair
14 Curling
False curling
Resisting curl
Limiting curl
Designing around curl
Repairing curled slabs
15 Joints
The function of joints
Joint types
Load transfer at joints
Inducing joints
Joint fillers
Armoured joints
Joint sealants
16 Crack control in ground-supported floors
The “let it crack” approach
Unreinforced floors with joints
Reinforced floors without joints
Reinforced floors with joints
Prestress
Sub-slab friction
Part V The floor surface
17 Floor finishing
Principles of finishing
Tools for finishing
The order of finishing steps
Types of finishes
Other finishing methods
How to specify finishes
18 Concrete toppings
Monolithic toppings
Bonded toppings
Unbonded toppings
Forbidden thicknesses
Cement–sand screeds
Terrazzo 309
Summary – choosing a topping
19 Surface regularity
Flatness and levelness
Defined versus random traffic
F-numbers
The TR 34 system
Straightedge tolerances
Factors that affect surface regularity
Superflat floors
20 Resistance to wear
The traditional approach
Classifying wear resistance
Testing wear resistance
How to specify wear resistance
Factors that affect wear resistance
Improving wear resistance
21 Resistance to chemical attack
Concrete’s chemical resistance
Protecting the concrete
Attack from below
22 Preparation for coatings, toppings
and floorcoverings
Moisture
Bond
Surface regularity
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