Formwork for Concrete
Formwork for Concrete

Author: Mary Krumboltz Hurd

Publisher: American Concrete Institute

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0870311778

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Formwork for Concrete has been written to serve a broad range of needs for information on formwork. For the experience designer or builder of formwork, it is a ready reference on material properties, design data, and construction suggestions. For the engineer-architect it adds guidance in relating details of the sturcture's design to the problems and possibilities of executing them in concrete. For the novice the book provides an introduction to many common formwork practices, explaining basic design principles and encouraging a rational rather than rule of thumb approach to formwork. -- book jacket.

Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction
Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction

Author: W.F. Chen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1991-09-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780849342134

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The most critical state of a structure's lifetime is during construction; many more disasters occur during construction than after projects have been completed. This book helps readers to determine construction loads; understand performance criteria during construction; prevent construction delays; maintain structural strength and stability; find relevant codes and standards; learn methods of shoring, reshoring, bracing and guying, and completing other temporary work; spot potential hazards; eliminate construction-created structural disaster; and maximize site safety. The book also covers concrete frame analysis and provides comprehensive treatment of topics such as construction procedures and shoring scheduling. Concrete Buildings: Analysis for Safe Construction also features a diskette that contains the computer program, SHORING2, a menu-driven, user-friendly program capable of calculating the loads imposed on shores, reshores, and slabs at every state of construction on high-rise reinforced concrete buildings. The program can also assess safety at each stage of construction. Concrete Buildings: Analysis for Safe Construction's "back to basics" approach, realistic detailed worked examples, and emphasis on safety through the use of computer programs, will benefit structural engineers, contractors, inspectors, construction managers, building officials, and construction safety specialists. The book is an important guide for safe analysis of concrete buildings during construction.