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    Polystyrene blockouts attached to upper surface of precast concrete stay-in-place slab forms are

    available in several widths to produce voided slabs up to 20 inches deep.

    Precast panels
    are stay-in-place forms
    for slabs
    Small trusses stiffen panels for are also cast into each panel to facilitate handling and
    to ensure the interconnection of the precast and cast-in-
    handling place deck components so that the finished slab per-
    forms as one unit. Available in 21⁄2- to 61⁄ -inch heights,
    P recast concrete panels stiffened by small, integral
    steel trusses can be used as stay-in-place forms for
    floor and roof slabs—either solid flat plates and slabs
    these trusses also serve as chairs for the slab’s top rein-
    forcing steel.
    Solid panels are used for 5- to 7-inch-thick slabs. To re-
    or deeper slabs with voids. As an integral floor compo- duce the weight of thicker slabs, howe ve r, panels are al-
    nent, the reinforced concrete panels act as both the sof- so available with polystyrene or metal blockouts at-
    fit of the floor and as the forms for a cast-in-place top- tached to the top surface, thereby eliminating
    ping. Since they contain all or most of the bottom unnecessary concrete. These void inserts are available in
    reinforcing steel, field work for bar setters is reduced. various widths to produce total slab depths up to 20
    Panel construction inches. Between 2 and 31⁄2 inches of concrete cover is re-
    quired over the voids. The concrete strength of the top-
    The 21⁄4-inch-thick, 8-foot-wide panels are formed in ping is specified at 3000 to 5000 psi.
    polished steel casting beds to produce a dense, smooth Design data and examples indicate spans up to about
    u n d e r s u rf a c e. The 4000-psi concrete panels are rein- 50 feet for voided slabs with 100 pounds per square foot
    forced with either conventional Grade 60 re i n f o rc i n g service load.
    steel or, for better control of deflections, with 270,000-psi
    p re s t ressing strand. From 4 to 25 strands can be cast Slab construction
    within each 8-foot-wide panel. Whether prestressed or Using a conventional medium-size crane, up to 10
    conventionally reinforced, though, the factory-precast truck-loads of panels or 15,000 square feet of floor can be
    panels ensure the accurate placement of the slab’s bot- placed in a normal workday. Each unit can be complete-
    tom steel. ly installed in a building in only about 5 minutes.
    Four small trusses resembling open-web steel joists
    Shoring can be spaced up to 13 feet apart for prestressed
    units and up to 8 feet for those conventionally rein-
    forced, and the field crew can be reduced to a crane op-
    e ra t o r, one man on the truck and two men to position
    the slabs.
    Immediately after placement, the panels, complete
    with prefabricated floor penetrations, provide a strong,
    stable platform for the installation of conduit, pipe, wire
    chases and other utilities to be encased in the concrete
    overlay. After the utilities are positioned, the top rein-
    forcing steel is laid over the projecting panel trusses, and
    the concrete is placed.
    Cutaway view of stay-in-place precast form panel, showing
    Flush joints and a factory-made undersurface pro-
    bottom steel, small truss stiffeners. Concrete cast on top of
    duce a ceiling ready for finishing, with reportedly no this panel completes the floor slab depth.
    need for grinding and patching, though joints may be
    taped and spackled if desired. A monolithic deck built
    in this fashion can provide the same structural, fire rat-
    ing and sound attenuation characteristics as a conven- PUBLICATION #C820355
    tional, cast-in-place floor, but without the assembling, Copyright © 1982, The Aberdeen Group
    disassembling and cleaning of forms. All rights reserved

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