Temporary structures in construction /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Other Authors: Ratay, Robert T. (ed.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c1984, c1996, c2012.
Edition:3rd ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • E. Suggestions to the instructor
  • A. Part 1: business, safety, and legal aspects
  • 1. Professional and business practices
  • Introduction
  • Professional practices
  • Business practices
  • Safety codes and regulations
  • Professional and business advice
  • 2. Standards, codes, and regulations
  • General overview of standards, codes, and regulations
  • National standards, specifications, and codes
  • Osha and state regulations
  • Recommended practice and guidelines
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • 3. Construction and environmental loads
  • Purpose and scope
  • General considerations for loads
  • Load factors and load combinations
  • Dead loads
  • Live loads
  • Construction loads
  • Environmental loads
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
  • 4. Construction site safety
  • Introduction
  • Construction accidents, injuries, and fatalities
  • Areas of interest to architects and engineers
  • Osha construction standards
  • Causes and prevention of construction failures
  • 5. Legal aspects
  • Legal relationships
  • Responsibilities
  • Insurance problems
  • Contracts
  • Subcontracting
  • Claims: the unexpected in underground construction
  • Informal dispute resolutions
  • Protection of utilities
  • Protection of adjacent premises
  • Trespass
  • B. Part 2: design, construction, and maintenance
  • 6. Cofferdams
  • Introduction
  • Design considerations
  • Cofferdam concepts
  • Cofferdam construction stages
  • Cofferdams founded on rock or through boulders
  • Cellular cofferdams
  • Concrete slurry wall cofferdams
  • Bibliography
  • 7. Earth-retaining structures
  • Introduction
  • Types of retaining structures
  • Retaining wall bracing systems
  • Freezing and grouting
  • Evaluation of site conditions
  • Design
  • Bibliography
  • 8. Diaphragm/slurry walls
  • General
  • Installation
  • Construction problems
  • Performance
  • Applications and uses
  • Analysis and design
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • 9. Construction dewatering and groundwater control
  • Introduction
  • History of dewatering
  • Factors involved in dewatering
  • Dewatering methods
  • Dewatering design and design considerations
  • System installation, operation, and removal
  • Cost elements of dewatering
  • Environmental applications of dewatering
  • Groundwater cutoff and exclusion methods
  • Bibliography
  • 10. Underground/tunneling supports
  • Introduction
  • General influences on tunnel support loading
  • Calculating rock or soil loads on underground openings
  • Installation of supports
  • Tunnel supports using rockbolts
  • Tunnel supports using shotcrete
  • Shaft supports
  • Risk management of underground and tunnel supports
  • References
  • 11. Underpinning
  • Introduction
  • Determining the need for underpinning
  • Design considerations
  • Precautions
  • Settlements caused by underpinning
  • Minimizing disturbance due to underpinning
  • Temporary support with maintenance jacking
  • Underpinning piers
  • Pretest piles
  • Bracket pile underpinning
  • Micropile underpinning
  • Helical pile underpinning
  • Slant-augered pile underpinning
  • Slurry and secant pile walls
  • Jet grouting
  • Ground freezing
  • Safety precautions
  • Construction documents
  • Responsibility
  • Inspection
  • Bibliography.
  • 12. Roadway decking
  • Introduction
  • Decking design
  • Deck supports
  • Concrete or timber decking
  • Precast concrete decking
  • Utilities
  • Future trends
  • Design considerations for beams and columns
  • Regulations and responsibilities
  • Drawings and specifications
  • Costs
  • 13. Construction ramps, runways, and platforms
  • Introduction
  • Definitions
  • Design and responsibilities
  • Vehicular runway plates
  • Timber trestle bridges
  • Prefabricated bridges
  • Foundation ramps
  • Runways and platforms
  • Roads and driveways
  • Railroads
  • 14. Scaffolding
  • General design considerations
  • Codes of standard practice
  • Design loads
  • Tube and clamp scaffolds
  • System scaffolds
  • Sectional scaffolding (welded tubular frame scaffolding)
  • Scaffold plank
  • General applications of scaffolds
  • Suspended (hanging) scaffolds
  • Safe practices
  • Bibliography
  • 15. Falsework/shoring
  • Frame shoring
  • Stability of towers
  • Screw-leg extensions
  • Self-weight of shoring
  • Frame layouts
  • Shoring design example (standard frames)
  • Shoring design example using aluminum joists and ledgers (heavy-duty frames)
  • Economics of heavy-duty frames
  • Estimating rental costs
  • Frame height stackup
  • Mud sills and shoring bases
  • Reshoring
  • Standardization of shoring frame tests and determination of safe allowable loads
  • Single-post shores
  • Flying shoring systems
  • Shoring design loads
  • Shoring posttensioned construction
  • Shoring in alteration work
  • Erection tolerances
  • Falsework drawings
  • Fire protection
  • New product trends
  • The scaffolding, shoring, and forming institute, inc.
  • References
  • 16. Concrete formwork
  • Introduction
  • Design loads
  • Some design considerations
  • Jobsite conditions
  • Formwork materials
  • Handset modular forms
  • Gang forms and ties
  • Tie systems
  • Types of forms
  • Forms for prestressed concrete
  • Form-release agents
  • Form removal
  • Tolerances
  • Drawings and specifications
  • Safety
  • Inspection
  • Forming economics
  • Bridge formwork
  • Form lifting systems
  • Slipforming
  • New construction methods and formwork development
  • Reference.
  • 17. Bracing and guying for stability
  • Introduction?the role of bracing and guying in temporary structures
  • Applications of temporary guying and bracing
  • Loads and load combinations
  • Examples
  • Bibliography
  • 18. Bridge falsework
  • Overview
  • Falsework systems
  • Design loads
  • Falsework stability
  • Falsework design
  • Falsework construction
  • Falsework alternatives
  • Bibliography
  • 19. Temporary structures in repair and restoration
  • General
  • Planning
  • Subsurface preparation
  • Protection
  • Demolition
  • Scaffolding, bracing, and shoring
  • Ladders and temporary stairways
  • Temporary openings
  • Notable recent projects
  • Summary
  • Attributions
  • Bibliography
  • 20. Cranes
  • Crane and rigging basics
  • Lifting machines and their accessories
  • Installation and operation
  • Safety, responsibilities, and regulations
  • Bibliography
  • 21. Protection of site, adjacent areas, and utilities
  • General practices, liabilities
  • Osha and other safety regulations
  • Signs
  • Barricades and fences
  • Heat protection
  • Noise control
  • Sidewalk sheds
  • Catch platforms and scaffolds
  • Damage due to construction operations
  • Protection of nearby structures
  • Protection of utilities
  • Monitoring surrounding ground and nearby structures' conditions
  • Bibliography
  • 22. Leading edge vertical containment systems
  • Overview
  • Phase 1: protection at the forming floor and floor above
  • Phase 2: protection at the stripping and forming floors
  • C. Part 3: failures
  • 23. Failures of temporary structures in construction
  • Construction failures
  • Case histories of temporary structure failures
  • How to avoid temporary structure failures?
  • Attribution ? Bibliography.