New design decisions of prefabricated girderless floors of multi-storeyed buildings

Abstract

Nowadays new trends are clearly manifested in building structures for buildings of various appointment and specific characteristics of their long-term operation. The priority in the construction industry takes place construction of high-rise residential and office buildings. Numerous studies in Ukraine and abroad proved that the construction of the frame with girderless floor provides resistance to both vertical and horizontal loads. It makes it possible to improve the traditional methods of frame building design. However, in the monolithic building of girderless floors there are a number of unresolved problems of structural, technological and organizational character. The authors have developed the construction of prefabricate reinforced concrete girderless floor that includes column drops, intercolumn slabs, span slabs. Column drops have bevelled lateral edges around the perimeter, forming a platform to support intercolumn slabs. Mounting of slabs occurs in the definite order. In the capacity of the columns it can be used as traditional prefabricated reinforced concrete structures as concrete filled steel tube ones. The advantage is that, comparing to modern reinforced concrete girderless floor, additional supporting equipment is not used during mounting slabs and scaffolding. The proposed girderless floors can be recommended for use in the construction of residential and public buildings for various purposes.