PrefaceIntroduction1 General1.1 The advantages of factory production1.2 Historical development1.3 European standardisation2 Design of Precast Concrete Structures2.1 General2.2 Tolerances and calculations for fit2.3 Production2.4 Transport and erection2.5 Sustainability2.6 Design examples3 Stability of Precast Concrete Structures3.1 General3.2 Loads on stability components3.3 Loadbearing members for stability3.4 Distribution of horizontal loads3.5 Analysis of stability components3.6 Construction details4 Precast Concrete Elements4.1 General4.2 Floor and roof elements4.3 Beams4.4 Columns4.5 Walls4.6 Foundations5 Connections for Precast Concrete Construction5.1 General5.2 Purlin supports5.3 Roof beam supports5.4 Floor slab supports5.5 Downstand beam supports5.6 Wall element supports5.7 Balcony slabs5.8 Stair supports5.9 Column/foundation6 Individual Design Issues6.1 General6.2 Patch loads6.3 Supports6.4 Column butt joints6.5 Wall/floor connections6.6 Shear dowels6.7 Welded connections6.8 Bolted connections and screw couplers6.9 Other forms of connection6.10 Transport fixings6.11 Transferring shear forces across joints6.12 Floor diaphragms and shear walls6.13 Shear forces in floor elements6.14 Notched supports6.15 Corbels6.16 Analysis of lateral buckling6.17 Design for fire6.18 Pretensioning7 Precast Concrete Façades7.1 General7.2 Conceptual design7.3 Surface finishes7.4 Joint waterproofing7.5 Concrete sandwich panels7.6 Suspended façade panels7.7 Further developments for concrete façades7.8 Building physics7.9 Case studies8 Production8.1 Production methods8.2 Concretes for precast concrete elements8.3 Heat treatment and curing8.4 Reinforcement8.5 Pretensioning in prestressing beds8.6 Quality assuranceIndex
Alfred Steinle (1936-2017) turned the lecture notes of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Hahn, which dated from the early 1970s, into a manuscript that became the starting point for this book. After a number of years in bridge-building, Alfred Steinle also became heavily involved in precast concrete construction at Züblin. His theoretical work covered bridge-building with torsion and section deformations in box-girder bridges and in precast concrete structures within the scope of the 6M system with corbels, notched beam ends and pocket foundations. In addition, he was a key figure in many precast concrete projects such as the 6M schools, the University of Riyadh, schools with foamed concrete wall panels in Iraq, Züblin House and the construction of a modern automated precasting plant. Alfred Steinle retired in 1999 and by that time he had risen to the post of authorised signatory in the engineering office at Züblin's head office.Hubert Bachmann (b. 1959) began his career in a precasting plant in 1976 as an apprentice for concrete and precast concrete construction. After studying structural engineering and completing his doctorate at the University of Karlsruhe, he accepted a post in the structural engineering office of Ed. Züblin AG in Stuttgart in 1993, where he has worked ever since. His duties have included the detailed design of structures of all kinds plus research and development in the civil and structural engineering sectors. He has been presenting the series of Hahn lectures on precast concrete structures at the University of Stuttgart since 2003.Mathias Tillmann (b. 1970) has been an engineering and standards consultant at Fachvereinigung Deutscher Betonfertigteilbau e.V. (FDB) since 2007 and technical director since 2008. He specialised in structural engineering during his studies at RWTH Aachen University. After attaining his diploma, he worked as a project engineer, structural engineer and designer. Mathias Tillmann has written numerous brochures, advisory documents and specialist articles on the subject of precast concrete.All three authors have been or still are very much involved in construction industry organisations, many technical boards and national and international standards committees concerned with precast concrete construction.