Analysis and Construction of One Way Steel Composite Floor (Technical Note)

In construction of concrete floors, parts of the formwork are sometimes left in place as permanent structural elements. This is to achieve a more straightforward installation procedure and to minimize the future under deck form removal. The present research work deals with, an innovative floor system consisting of hollow-tiles and steel joists. In a hollow-tile floor system, gravity loads are transferred by the slab sitting on top of the blocks to the one way joist and then to the main beams. With the proposed new system the width of the hollow block is doubled so, it is relatively lighter than an ordinary hollow-tile floor system. The joists height is slightly bigger than that in an ordinary hollow-tile floor system; however, the hollow block height remains the same. Thin plastofoams sheets are placed on top of the blocks to fill the gap. During the construction, the fresh concrete weight is carried by temporary vertical posts. After removal of temporary posts, the service loads are transferred to the T beams. This paper provides details for the application of the proposed new floor system in a steel frame building under gravity and quasi static earthquake loading. Various spans and floor thicknesses have been examined and the details are presented.