Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
  • E04B2/84—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ
  • E04B2/86—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ made in permanent forms
  • E04B2/8623—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ made in permanent forms with spacers and at least one form leaf being monolithic
  • E04B2/8629—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ made in permanent forms with spacers and at least one form leaf being monolithic with both form leaves and spacers being monolithic
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
  • E04B2/84—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ
  • E04B2/86—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ made in permanent forms
  • E04B2/8635—Walls made by casting, pouring, or tamping in situ made in permanent forms with ties attached to the inner faces of the forms

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method of stiffening formwork blocks which for example may consist of styropore (expanded polystyrene) and foundation wall elements composing a number of such interconnected blocks, connected with stiffening elements.
• stiffening formwork blocks which for example may consist of styropore (expanded polystyrene) and foundation wall elements composing a number of such interconnected blocks, connected with stiffening elements.
• a quick and simple method for casting isolated walls is to construct such walls by hollow blocks, consisting of vertical-standing side walls connected by webs and which are open in the upward and downward direction, normally by interconnecting devices of a "male/female" system at the top and the bottom of the walls.
• concrete is poured from the top and fills the cavity (space) inside the blocks and cures to a compact wall inside the element which gives the walls an intended mechanical strenght, while the outside plastic walls simultaneously provide isolation.
• Such blocks are for example described in Norwegian patent publication No. 160,799.
• a problem in constructing such walls is that during filling of the liquid concrete material, the blocks have a tendency to be forced up - often locally - due to the weight of the concrete mass. This may result in minor cracks with a size in the order of mm in the wall, and hence misalignment (distortion) in the wall.
• a subject of the present invention has been to provide a permanent stiffening of the formwork elements composing interconnected light-weight plastic blocks of heights which normally will go up to 2,5 m, but which also possibly could be built higher. Further, it will in many cases, as mentioned earlier, be desired to provide fixed nailing strips on the concrete side of the plastic material walls.
• the present invention relates to a method of stiffening plastic forwork elements consisting of interconnected plastic material forwork blocks, characterized by that in the space between opposed walls of the formwork element, is introduced stiffening elements with an I-profile, wherein the flanges are forced and eventually glued against the opposed walls of the formwork element, eventually introduced into preshaped grooves in these, and the web of the I-shaped stiffening profile is provided with macroscopic openings.
• the flanges on the stiffening elements may be glued to the plastic material walls with expanded glue (adhesive) to provide an optimal connection.
• the stiffening elements are installed in the wall so as to be in a vertical position when the wall is upright, and they may, if desirable, be placed between each web in the plastic blocks or with a lower frequency if desirable.
• the web itself could with advantage be a truss (grid) girder such as a reinforcement beam SB consisting of two parallell extending metal threads with desired spaced apart distance connected with diagonal extending thread (in zig ⁇ zag) , in which different ways of connecting such as spot welding etc. the stiffening thread to the parallell threads may be utilized.
• a truss (grid) girder such as a reinforcement beam SB consisting of two parallell extending metal threads with desired spaced apart distance connected with diagonal extending thread (in zig ⁇ zag) , in which different ways of connecting such as spot welding etc. the stiffening thread to the parallell threads may be utilized.
• the truss girder may in different ways be connected to the flanges when these are made of wood, for example by cramps or the like, and may also be installed in a preformed groove in the flanges.
• the web may have other configurations, which for example could be a metal plate with sufficient large holes so that the concrete during filling will floate unobstructed therethrough.
• this is specially favourable achieved with said truss girder, where the concrete will float with the smallest possible resistance, and whereby a reinforcement simultaneously is embedded in the completed wall.
• the present invention also relates to such formwork elements consisting of interconnected formwork blocks to the desired dimension in height and length, which are characterized by that their stiffening elements consist of vertical standing I-profiles with macroscopic openings in the webs where the flanges rest against, and preferably are connected to, the opposed walls.
• Construction elements of this kind will be made completely stiff in the same way as a laminated construction and will not suffer from the previous problems concerning formation of cracks and torsion which lead to misalignments (destortions) and irregularities in the walls during casting.
• a stiffening in the length direction of the wall may be provided by placing a corresponding stiffening device or only the flange there of horizontally in the bottom and the top of the wall, and connect these respectively to the bottom and the top of the flanges. By doing this, one will also achieve an increased stiffening in the length direction of the walls.
• Elements of the type described have the great advantage that they may be manufactured both at the construction site and prefabricated in a fabric as large completed, stiffened elements (forwork walls) with the desired dimension, ready for mounting and filling in of liquid concrete.
• a manufacture of such elements may be carried out by continuous manufacturing, as for example expanded polystyrene elements or the like are successiveively mounted together, introducing the stiffening elements, pushing the product forward, extending it by making up new formwork blocks, installing the stiffening elements, pushing forward, etc.
• the wall may be located in both a vertical and horizontal position when the stiffening elements are installed.
• the elements may be cut in desired lengths, for example as standard lengths of 0.6, 1.2, 2.4, 3.6 m etc., or the lengths are cut according to order.
• Parts of the web may eventually be sealed (closed) at places where for example openings for windows are desired, so that the concrete will not fill this space.
• the design of the webs may be varied according to the desired nailing strips.
• the figure illustrates a part of a stiffened formwork wall (1) built up by formwork blocks (2) .
• the blocks have parallell extending opposed walls (3) connected by web (4) .
• a groove (recess) (6) is provided in the opposed parallell extending walls (3) .
• a stiffening element with an I-profile where the flanges (5) are guided in the grooves (6) .
• the web (8) which connects the flanges consist of a truss girder
• the diagonal extending thread in the truss girder will normally have a dimension of 4-7 mm, when the parallell extending threads which are connected to the flanges, normally will have a diameter of 5-12 mm.
• the stiffening elements in the figure are introduced with a such distance that they have two webs of the formwork blocks in between.

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• 1991
  • 1991-07-09 NO NO912699A patent/NO173519C/no not_active IP Right Cessation
• 1992
  • 1992-07-09 EP EP92914762A patent/EP0593598A1/en not_active Withdrawn
  • 1992-07-09 AU AU22902/92A patent/AU2290292A/en not_active Abandoned
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