Many industrial ground floors are constructed as pile-supported slabs due to high floor loadings and/or poor ground conditions. These slabs are designed assuming no structural support from the ground, the ground only acting as in-situ formwork. Significant surface cracking has been experienced on some pile-supported slabs; the risk of such cracking is discussed.

Published: October 2014. Reviewed October 2016
Format: PDF
Pages: 4


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