Supporting A Suspended Concrete Floor

Imposed loads varies from approximately 1 5 kn m 2 153 kg m 2 in domestic buildings to approximately 10 kn m 2 1053 kg m 2 in heavy industrial areas.

Supporting a suspended concrete floor. Sukup floors will accommodate most drying or storage needs. 500 kg m 2 is typical for office storage space and similar. This chapter gives guidance on meeting the technical requirements for suspended ground floors including. The structural support for suspended slabs for the ground floor is usually dwarf masonry walls.

7 2 10 strutting for attic trusses and cut roofs that form a floor. They are also ideal for flush floor aeration applications. In this article we will be focusing on the suspended concrete floor particularly beam and block floors. This reduces the overall embodied energy and makes for less costly construction.

5 2 7 construction of suspended concrete ground floors. 7 2 11 support for equipment. However the floor structure is supported by external and internal walls. A suspended concrete floor is a floor slab where its perimeter is or at least two of its opposite edges are supported on walls beams or columns that carry its self weight and imposed loading.

Suspended concrete slab is referred to a cement slab that is not in contact with the ground. A suspended floor is a ground floor with a void underneath the structure. Suspended concrete floors can be supported on timber structures and do not necessarily require steel or masonry support if designed by a qualified engineer with experience in timber design. The suspended floor does not rely on support from the ground below but instead is supported by the external walls and therefore the foundations below.

7 2 13 dormer construction. The floor spans between supports and will normally deflect under load to a dimension that is limited by the design used. The most common application of suspended slab in residential construction is used at garage floor where below the garage floor is a storage. 5 2 8 transfer of loads.

This type of concrete slab construction requires different concrete slab design from the one we normally see that is cast on the ground.