332 Design of Industrial Floors—Review of Guidelines, Special Designing Issues (Part 1)

can be made on the internal field, at saw-cut joints, dilatations are divided into three groups by the
construction joints and on free edge in case of point guideline which provides a detailed description of its
loads. The impact of the possibly connecting constructions and required dilatation joints. These are
reinforcement and dowels can be considered upon namely the cut dilatation, full isolation and
dilatations. The opportunity of designing for shrinkage joined/joint dilatation. Loads occurring on the floors
appeared in the edition of 2003, which considers the appear in the detailed description, where the possible
effects of thermal expansion loads deriving from occurring impacts of the structure are also mentioned.
shrinkage and thermal difference. The 2013 edition no Safety factors carry a greater value than those of the
longer featured the design for shrinkage, as according European standards, the value of this range between
to the edition, if the conditions of proper concrete 1.7 and 2.0 depending on the type of load.
technology, construction and formation of dilatation As a background to the calculations the guideline
are fulfilled, this issue is non-relevant. In the edition mentions that determination of peak load of the plate
of 2013 design for fatigue was released as a novelty, supported by springs is carried out based on the yield
which was carried out as loads of forklifts, at the same line theory and that it considers the Winkler-type
time, it provided a formula solely for the fabric foundations at the plate supported by springs, but does
reinforced concrete industrial floors. not demonstrate details of the calculation. Upon
To sum it up, most types of industrial floors can be defining the peak load which occurs as the effect of
designed by the 2013 edition of TR34 and by adopting point load the guideline demonstrates the various
certain parts of the 2003 edition (e.g., design for formulas depending on the location of the point load
shrinkage). (free corner, free edge, internal), however it does not
provide a recommendation for two and four point
2.2 ACI 360
loads located at a certain distance from each other. It
The correspondent of TR34 is the ACI360 guideline is to be noted that the guideline uses similar formulas
[1] issued by the American Concrete Institute in the to TR34 for defining the peak load, although it uses
USA. strong approximations various places, as 2π = 6.
The guidelines provide a detailed description for The guideline demonstrates the calculation of fibre
construction of industrial floors, methods of forming reinforced concrete floors by a separate example. It
dilatations and for application of the necessary considers the effect of fibre reinforcement based on
dilatation joints. The guideline differentiates between the coefficient of Re3 formerly ceased in Europe. This
plain concrete floors and floors of various measure is the quotient of the average value of the
reinforcement. The guideline considers steel bar, steel- peak load of concrete and fibre reinforcement added
and synthetic macro fibre as reinforcement. The residual flexural tension strength.
guideline declares that synthetic micro fibres do not
2.3 Austrian Guideline
cause additional load bearing capacity to floors,
moreover, they are not suitable for limiting shrinkage The Austrian guideline, similarly to the TR34 and
cracks deriving from drying shrinkage. The guideline ACI360 guidelines, was published by the Austrian
details the methods of determining geotechnical concrete society (Österreichische Vereinigung für
features as well as the soil parameters necessary for Beton–und Bautechnik), titled Merkblatt–Herstellung
the proper functionality of the floor. The guideline von faserbewehrten monolithischen Betonplatten,
provides what the compactness of the various types of which was built entirely on the basis of the TR34 for
soils can range between in a table form. Soil fibre reinforced concrete industrial floors. Several