VEE FLAT PLATE SYSTEM
By fitting landing tabs to the upper surface of Vee Slabs, one Vee Slab can be supported off another Vee Slab in the same plane. In this way Vee Slab Flat Plates can be built using various patterns of Vee Slabs to emulate two way flat plate structures.
Flat plates are common in the building industry as they offer thin floor depths and simplicity of installation of services .
Vee Flat Plates are more economic than the Vee Spine Systems as the Vee Slab components are much cheaper to produce than Spine Beams.
Vee Flat Plates are suitable for lighter loaded structures such as residential, offices and car parks.
The member which carries the load to the column is a specialized Vee Slab which is solid around the column and carries significant non stressed reinforcement in both directions. This members has its’ prestress profiled high over the column and low over the mid span. The Vee Slab Spine is joined at the point of inflection of the column strip to attain pseudo continuity during construction.
As with the other Vee Systems, the Vee Flat Plate is fully self supporting during construction so does not require any vertical propping with the subsequent gains in construction speed.
Although for optimal precasting efficiency a structure should have a high a level of repetition as possible, the Vee Plate Plate system can be adapted to irregular and misaligned column grids.
THE FOLOWING IS THE ERECTION SEQUENCE OF THE VEE FLAT PLATE SYSTEM.
After the columns are installed in a similar manner to the Vee Spine System:
VEE SPINE SLAB MEMBERS ARE ERECTED OVER INTERNAL COLUMNS
SECONDARY VEE SPINE MEMBERS ARE ERECTED TO THE EXTERNAL COLUMNS
EDGE VEE SLABS ARE INSTALLED
THE REMAINING INFILL VEE SLABS ARE INSTALLED READY FOR REINFORCEMENT AND TOPPING SLAB.
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