Maximum loads on shores during the construction of buildings

What is it about?

This paper describes a simplified method of estimating maximum loads on shores during the construction of multistorey buildings with in situ casting. Calculating this maximum value is fundamental to establish the design load of the shores and thus avoid possible safety problems caused by selecting the wrong type of shore. The procedure was verified and showed a good fit with both the experimental measurements and finite-element method calculations. This simplified procedure will be useful to both researchers and practitioners, who have to deal with this problem in the course of their daily work. The proposal also represents an important technology transfer to the industry as it is in the form of a simplified tool that comes fairly close to the results obtained by complex calculation methods. Actually, the maximum load obtained from the simplified method is 20,72 kN, which is very close to the value 21,37 kN obtained from an advanced finite-element model.

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Why is it important?

The aim of this study was to use a simplified method to estimate the maximum loads on shores during the construction of buildings with in situ casting to facilitate the calculations and avoid safety problems when selecting the type of shore to be used. The method’s principal novelty resides in its proposal for calculating maximum load on shores based on the simplified method of Calderón et al. (2011).

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