Reinforced shrinkage compensating concrete slab structure
AssigneeKalman Floor Company
InventorCarl N. Ytterberg
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Abstract
A reinforced concrete building structure comprises a shrinkage compensating concrete slab having a plurality of deformed reinforcing bars embedded therein, the bars being restricted to a peripheral portion of the slab which surrounds the centroid of the slab devoid of reinforcement and are aligned with the expansive and shrinkage forces to elastically restrain the forces and to thereby act as an internally developed tension ring.
Claims9
A reinforced concrete building structure comprising a shrinkage compensating concrete slab of predetermined thickness having a centroid portion surrounded by a peripheral portion, active expansive and shrinkage forces being normally concentrated in the peripheral portion, a plurality of non-post-tensioned and non-pre-tensioned, deformed reinforcing bars embedded within the concrete slab and lying substantially parallel to major outer and inner faces of the slab, the bars being spaced from the. outer surface of the slab a distance equal to about one-third the thickness of the slab, and the plurality of reinforcing bars being restricted to the peripheral portion and being aligned with the expansive and shrinkage forces to elastically restrain the forces and to maximize the efficiency of the reinforcement and to thereby act as an internally developed tension ring.
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