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A Guide to Fabric-Formed Concrete

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INTRODUCTION
General Objectives in Fabric-formed Building
How fabric formwork affects concrete quality
Causes of failures
Planning for Safety
Relationship of architect, engineer and contractor
Measurement and payment for formwork
How the architect-engineer can reduce form costs
OVERALL PLANNING
Development of a basic system
Key areas of cost reduction
Planning for maximum reuse
Economical form construction
Setting and stripping
Other costs affected by formwork plan
Planning examples
MATERIALS, ACCESSORIES, PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS
Fabric
Lumber
Engineered wood products
Plywood
Other framing and facing materials
Insulation and insulating forms
Hardware and fasteners
Prefabricated forms
Shoring and scaffolding
LOADS AND PRESSURES
Vertical loads
Lateral pressure of fresh concrete
Lateral loads
Other loads
FORM DESIGN
Notation
Basic Simplifications
Beam formulas
Design criteria
Bearing examples
Wall, slab and beam form design
Form accessories
Column form design
Shoring and scaffolding
Bracing for lateral loads
Camber and adjustment for settlement

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DESIGN TABLES
Joists, studs, beams
Double members
Wood shores
Form design Using the Tables
Design tables

  1. General layout and detail drawings
  2. Check list of details
  3. Recheck of structural drawings
  4. Drawing approval

BUILDING AND ERECTING THE FORMWORK
Carpentry Shop and Job Mill
Footings
Slab on grade and paving work
Wall forms
Column forms
Beam or girder forms
Slab forms
Shoring and Scaffolding

  1. Foundations
  2. Piers
  3. Pier caps and tie struts
  4. Superstructures
  5. Arch bridges
  6. Segmental box girder bridge construction
  7. Making precast bridge segments

USING THE FORMS
Placing reinforcement and inserts
Preparation for concreting
Inspection and form watching
Placing and vibrating-effect on formwork
Removal of forms and shores
Reshoring
Care and storage of forms and accessories
Cold weather protection
FORMWORK FOR ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE
Specifications: Defining quality
Architectural formwork design
Exposed concrete surfaces
Construction of architectural forms
Stripping
Cleanup and repair

CONTENTS

SHELLS, DOMES, FOLDED PLATES
Shell form design considerations
Building the forms
Placing concrete
Form removal
Inflated forming methods
MASS CONCRETE
Low lift formwork
Handling, erecting, stripping
Non-cantilevered formwork
Roller-compacted mass concrete
Foundations or starting lifts
Curing, joint cleanup, insulation
Planning and supervision
Tolerances
TUNNEL FORMING AND SHAFTS
Tunnel forming components
Concrete placement methods
General design considerations
Form construction
Stripping time
Tolerances
Shafts
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES IN CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
Slipform construction
Horizontal slipforms
Traveling forms
Tilt-up construction
Lift method of construction
Preplaced aggregate concrete
Shotcrete
Tremie concrete

  1. Advantages of precasting
  2. Formwork
  3. Stripping
  4. Erection and joints
  1. Forms for post-tensioning
  2. Forms for pre-tensioning

APPENDIX
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Guide to Formwork for Concrete, ACI 347-04
ACI 318-02 Code and Commentary-Chapter 6, Formwork,
Embedded Pipes, and Construction Joints
OSHA Regulations, Subpart Q-Concrete and Masonry Construction
Index
Metric Conversion Factors