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2007-01-01

A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods

Un nuevo método de diseño de losas para pisos industriales ante la inaplicabilidad de los métodos simplificados de diseño, entre ellos los de la Portland Cement Association (Pca) y Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786

Keywords:

floor slab on grade, Portland Cement Association, Wire Reinforcement Institute, slab design on grade, floor design, industrial floor slab, concrete floor, concrete slab on grade, pavement, rigid pavement (en)
placas de piso sobre terreno, Portland Cement Association, Wire Reinforcement Institute, diseño de losas sobre terreno, diseño de pisos, placas de pisos industriales, losas de pisos industriales, pisos de concreto (es)

Authors

  • Hugo Ernesto Camero Sanabria Construdiseños Alta Ingeniería Ltda.

This article presents a methodology for designing slabs on grade for industrial floors where there is an eccentricity between the slab centroid and the gravity center loads of the loaded axle of forklift trucks travelling over the floor. An example was used for analyzing how Portland Cement Association (PCA) and the Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods are inadequate for designing floors subjected to this condition. The new proposal for designing slabs on grade for industrial floors has been called the Camero method. An example of an industrial floor designed to be capable of sustaining an infinite number of load applications (or 50-year life) was compared to the results of the Camero method and PCA and WRI’s simplified methods. Industrial floors should be capable of sustaining an infinite number of load applications (50-year lite) if designed with the Camero method; on the other hand, if designed using PCA and WRI methods they will only last one year (in this example the number of axle load applications in a 1-year period was equal to the number of allowable repetitions) because they will not be able to sustain an infinite number of load applications. It was concluded that designing plain concrete slabs (without reinforcement) on grade according to PCA and the WRI methods leads to slab fatigue, even though extreme fiber stress should not exceed 50 percent (50%) of static modulus of concrete rupture and slabs should sustain an infinite number of load repetitions (infinite amount of forklift truck traffic) were considered parameters in their design.

Se presenta una metodología para el diseño de losas sobre terreno para pisos industriales en donde hay excentricidad entre el centroide de la losa y el centro de gravedad de las cargas del eje cargado del montacargas que transita sobre el piso. Mediante un ejemplo se analiza cómo los métodos de diseño de pisos de la Portland Cement Association (PCA) y la Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) son inadecuados para el diseño de pisos sometidos a esta condición. El nuevo método propuesto para diseñar pisos industriales ha sido llamado Camero. Mediante un ejemplo, un piso industrial es diseñado para ser capaz de admitir un número infinito de aplicaciones de carga (o un periodo de vida útil del piso de 50 años), comparando los resultados del método Camero y los simplificados de la PCA y la WRI. El piso industrial será capaz de admitir un número infinito de aplicaciones de carga (50 años) si es diseñado con el método Camero. De otra manera: si es diseñado por los métodos de la PCA y la WRI únicamente durará un año (En este ejemplo, en el periodo de un año el número de aplicaciones del eje cargado es igual al número de repeticiones admisibles), por eso el piso industrial no será capaz de admitir un número infinito de aplicaciones de carga. Concluimos que el diseño de losas sobre terreno de concreto simple (sin refuerzo), de acuerdo con la metodología de la PCA y la WRI, conduce a losas diseñadas a fatiga, a pesar de haber considerado en el diseño que el esfuerzo en las fibras superiores no excedería el 50% del módulo de rotura del concreto y que admitirían un número infinito de repeticiones de carga (número infinito de tránsito del montacargas de diseño).

References

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Ringo, B.C. and Anderson R.B., Designing Floor Slabs On Grade., 2nd. edition, Illinois, The Aberdeen Group, 1996.

Camero, H.E., Diseño y Construcción de placas de contrapiso industriales sin juntas en concreto reforzado., Asociación de Ingenieros Civiles de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s Journal, No. 31, Junio, 2002, pp. 12-13.

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Camero Sanabria, H. E. (2007). A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods. Ingeniería e Investigación, 27(1), 93–100. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786

ACM

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Camero Sanabria, H.E. 2007. A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods. Ingeniería e Investigación. 27, 1 (Jan. 2007), 93–100. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786.

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Camero Sanabria, H. E. A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods. Ing. Inv. 2007, 27, 93-100.

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CAMERO SANABRIA, H. E. A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods. Ingeniería e Investigación, [S. l.], v. 27, n. 1, p. 93–100, 2007. DOI: 10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14786. Acesso em: 23 apr. 2025.

Chicago

Camero Sanabria, Hugo Ernesto. 2007. “A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods”. Ingeniería E Investigación 27 (1):93-100. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786.

Harvard

Camero Sanabria, H. E. (2007) “A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods”, Ingeniería e Investigación, 27(1), pp. 93–100. doi: 10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786.

IEEE

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H. E. Camero Sanabria, “A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods”, Ing. Inv., vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 93–100, Jan. 2007.

MLA

Camero Sanabria, H. E. “A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods”. Ingeniería e Investigación, vol. 27, no. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 93-100, doi:10.15446/ing.investig.v27n1.14786.

Turabian

Camero Sanabria, Hugo Ernesto. “A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods”. Ingeniería e Investigación 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 93–100. Accessed April 23, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14786.

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Camero Sanabria HE. A new method for designing floor slabs on grade due to the difficulty of applying simplified design methods, amongst them being the Portland Cement Association (PCA) and Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI) methods. Ing. Inv. [Internet]. 2007 Jan. 1 [cited 2025 Apr. 23];27(1):93-100. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/14786

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