TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Civil Engineering Department

CE405
Construction Materials and Testing
WRITTEN REPORT
CHAPTER 15
Precast Concrete Framing

PREPARED BY
REBUGIO, Ron Julienne C.
CE41FB2
SUBMITTED TO
ENGR. FATIMA JADE C. ANG
Instructor

REPORT SUBMITTED
October 12,2015
CHAPTER 15
Precast Concrete Framing
Precast Concrete Slabs

The most fully standardized precast concrete elements are those used for making
oor and roof slabs (Figure 15.3). These may be supported by bearing walls of
precast concrete or masonry or by frames of steel, sitecast concrete, or precast
concrete. Four kinds of precast slab elements are commonly roduced: For short
spans and minimum slab depths, solid slabs are appropriate. For longer spans,
deeper elements must be used, and precast solid slabs, like their sitecast
counterparts, become inef cient because they contain too much deadweight of
nonworking concrete. In hollow-core slabs, precast elements suitable for
intermediate spans, internal longitudinal voids replace much of the nonworking
concrete. For the longest spans, still deeper elements are required, and double tees
and single tees eliminate still more nonworking concrete.

Precast Concrete Wall Panels

Precast concrete panels, either prestressed or conventionally reinforced, are
commonly used as loadbearingwall panels in many types of low-rise and high-rise
buildings. Solid panels typically range from 3 to 10 inches (90 to 250 mm) in
thickness and can span one or two stories in height. When restressed, strands are
located in the vertical midplane of the wall panels to strengthen the panels against
buckling and to eliminate camber. Ribbed or hollow-core panels, or sandwich panels
with integral rigid foam insulation, may be as deep as 12 to 24 inches (305 to
610mm) and can span up to four stories

Figure 15.5 shows a building whose precast slab elements (double tees in this
example) are supported a skeleton frame of L-shaped precast girders and precast
columns. The slab elements in Figure 15.6 are supported on precast loadbearing
wall panels. Figure 15.7 illustrates a building whose slabs are ported on a
combination of wall panels and girders. These three fundamental ways of
supporting precast, on precast loadbearing wall panels, and on a combination of the
two occur in endless variations in buildings. The skeleton may be one bay or many
bays deep; the loadbearing walls are often constructed of reinforced masonry or of
various con gurations of precast concrete; the slab elements