Innovative composite floors for sustainable schools

• Autores: Daniel Chapman, Allan McRobie, Sam Winder, Panayiotis Papastavrou, Simon Smith
• Localización: The Structural Engineer: journal of the Institution of Structural Engineer, ISSN 1466-5123, Vol. 101, Nº. 4, 2023, págs. 20-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article describes a project to investigate the dynamic behaviour of a prefabricated timber-concrete composite floor slab developed for the Department for Education’s GenZero sustainable schools programme.

    The GenZero initiative involves a new building system made of a kit of parts that could be manufactured off site and then assembled on site to create different configurations of secondary school.

    The slab is constructed of a precast concrete deck on glulam ribs, with two interlayers.

    The project investigated the effect of both the interlayers and different shear connectors on the performance of the slab.