Design and Construction of Concrete Floors recognizes that a good floor must do far more than support its intended loads. This thoroughly updated third edition provides further insight into polished concrete, limestone cement, and jointless floors for an international audience of structural engineers, architects, and building developers. This book discusses structural design, crack control, flatness, wear resistance, slip resistance, and suitability for floor coverings.
This book provides detail on different concrete floor types, including ground-supported concrete floors; suspended concrete floors; office and residential floors; institutional floors, including those in hospitals and libraries; industrial floors, including those that support robotic equipment; floors over contaminated soil; superflat floors; and polished concrete. In addition, this book expands on designing floors for sustainability and reduced carbon footprint.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking about Floor Design
Part 1: How Floors are Used
1. Nonindustrial Floors
2. Warehouses
3. Factory Floors and Special Cases
Part 2: Structural Design
4. Structural design of ground-supported floors
5. Structural design of suspended floors
Part 3: Materials
6. Properties of plastic concrete
7. Properties of hardened concrete
8. The components of concrete
9. Mix design and mixing
10. Transporting and placing concrete
11. Curing
12. Reinforcement
Part 4: Joints and Cracks
13. Cracks
14. Curling
15. Joints
16. Crack control in ground-supported floors
17. Crack control in suspended floors
Part 5: The Floor Surface
18. Floor finishing
19. Concrete toppings
20. Surface Regularity
21. Resistance to wear and chemical attack
22. Preparation for floorcoverings
Part 6 Sustainability
23. Reducing Carbon Footprint
Index
Author(s)
Biography
George Garber has worked as a consulting engineer on the design and construction of concrete floors since 1979. He is a voting member of ASTM Committee E6 on the Performance of Buildings.
