SSttrruuccttuurraall BBeehhaavviioorr ooff AAnncchhoorreedd Plates in Tilt-up Construction Presented by Ulric Ibanez, REU Student Bill Sheu, Graduate Mentor Y. L. Mo, Faculty Advisor August 2010 CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Experimental Program 44. EExperiimenttall RResulltts 5. Conclusion and Future Work Tilt-Up Construction • IItt aallll ssttaarrtteedd wwiitthh aa fflloowweerrppoott. • French gardener, Joseph Monier put iron mesh to reinforce garden pots and tubs in 1849. • The father of tilt-up concrete, Robert Aiken poured the walls flat on a sand bed with door and window openings and then tipped them up onto the ffoouunnddaattiioonn iinn 11990066. • Robert Aiken later refined his method, using a steel tipping table to build 15 buildings, which included a two-story ammunition house. • Thomas Edison built an entire village of tilt-up concrete houses in Union, New Jersey in 1908. • After the development of the mobile crane, the tilt-up wall started gaining popularity. Tilt-Up Construction • Tilt-Up concrete construction began in California in the late 1950s and later spread out to construction industrial throughout United States. • This construction method is cost-saving, fast, and safe; the tilt-up building is durable and has decent fire and seismic resistance. • The tilt-up wall panels act as load-bearing walls and can also serve as curtain walls for the exterior face of buildingg. • The wall panels can be customized for different colors, textures, eexxppoosseedd aaggggrreeggaatteess,, ffrroomm lliinneerrss oorr ttoo aannyy ccuussttoomm aappppeeaarraanncceess ;; They can also be designed as sandwich thermal panels. Tilt-Up Construction Tilt-Up Construction Tilt-Up Construction Tilt-Up Construction Tilt-Up Construction • According the Tilt-Up Concrete Association, over 15% industrial buildings between 5,000 to 1.5 million square ffoooott aarree ccoonnssttrruucctteedd wwiitthh ttiilltt--uupp wwaallllss. • Eaacch yyeeaar aatt leeaasstt 100,,000000 bbuuilddinggss eenccloossingg 665500 millioon square foot are constructed by the tilt-up construction method. • Tilt-up is particularly well-suited to warehouses, schools, offices, churches, shopping centers and manufacturing plants, or any other concrete buildings up to five floors in hheiighhtt . Tilt-Up Construction
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