Lifting Precast Concrete Units
Lifting Precast Concrete Units
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I am designing some precast reinforced concrete slabs. When the slab is lifted, it can be analysed as a simply-supported beam with the UDL provided by the self-weight of the beam and the supports provided by the lifting points. I want to apply a partial factor of safety to the UDL value, for bad lifting, but can't find any guidance on this. BS 8110-1:1997 clause 2.4.4.2 says FOS should be 1.3 for concrete in flexure due to effects of exceptional loads or localised damage. Is this the FOS I should be using?
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RE: Lifting Precast Concrete Units
Their manuals are very thorough and have plenty of deatails and expamples of all types of precast construction examples and details.
Good luck,
Daniel
RE: Lifting Precast Concrete Units
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