The document discusses lift slab construction, which involves casting concrete floor or roof slabs on top of previous slabs and then raising them with hydraulic jacks. This allows work to be completed at ground level instead of forming floors in place. Lift slab construction is useful for quickly creating structures with repetitive floor plans like parking ramps. Key equipment includes hydraulic jacks, lifting collars cast into each slab, and shear blocks to hold slabs in place once lifted. The process involves casting slabs, applying bond breakers, then sequentially lifting slabs using jacks as the building rises.
2. WHAT IS LIFT SLAB
• ALSO CALLED AS YOUTZ-SLICK METHOD.
• CONSTRUCTING CONCRETE BUILDING BY CASTING THE FLOOR OR ROOF SLAB
ON TOP OF THE PREVIOUS AND THEN RAISING THE SLAB UP WITH HYDRAULIC
JACKS.
3. WHAT IS LIFT SLAB
• THIS METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION ALLOWS FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THE
WORK TO BE COMPLETED AT GROUND LEVEL, NEGATING THE NEED TO FORM
FLOOR WORK IN PLACE.
• THE ABILITY TO CREATE MONOLITHIC CONCRETE SLABS MAKES THE LIFT SLAB
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE USEFUL IN QUICKLY CREATING STRUCTURES WITH
REPETITIVE FORM WORK, LIKE PARKING RAMPS.
BUILDING WITH RCC SLABS
BUILDING WITH LIFT SLABS
5. HISTORY OF LIFT SLAB
1895-1972 1916 –1962
GOT FIRST PATENT ON
LIFT SLAB
PHILIP N. YOUTZ THOMAS B SLICK
6. COMPONENTS OF LIFT SLABS
NUT DRIVE ARM
TAKE UP NUT
HYDAULIC JACK
LIFTING ROD
ROD COUPLED
EXTENSION ROD
SPACER
LIFTING ANGLE
SLAB
SHEAR HEAD
LIFTING NUT
HOLDING NUT
7. ADVANTAGES OF LIFT SLAB
• ONLY FORMWORK FOR EDGES OF THE SLAB AND NO CENTERING TO SOFFIT OF SLABS IS
REQUIRED
• THE SLABS ARE CAST MONOLITHICALLY AND CAN BE DESIGNED TO SPAN CONTINUOUSLY
BETWEEN THE POINTS OF SUPPORT AND SO EMPLOY THE LEAST THICKNESS OF SLAB.
• LIFT-SLAB CONSTRUCTION METHOD BECOMES MORE ADVANTAGEOUS IN
BUILDINGS WITH SIMILAR FLOOR PLANS THROUGHOUT THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING
AND WHERE FLUSH SLAB MAY BE DESIRED.
• LIFT-SLAB METHOD MAY BE EMPLOYED WITH RIBBED SLABS NOT ONLY FLAT
SLABS WITH SOME COMPROMISE OF THE EASE OF CASTING.
8. DISADVANTAGES OF LIFT SLAB
• IF NOT PROPERLY HANDLED, THE PRECAST UNITS MAY BE DAMAGED.
• IT BECOMES DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE SATISFACTORY CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN THE PRECAST MEMBERS.
• IT IS NECESSARY TO ARRANGE FOR SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR LIFTING AND
MOVING OF THE PRECAST UNITS.
• THE ECONOMY ACHIEVED IN PRECAST CONSTRUCTION IS PARTIALLY
BALANCED BY THE AMOUNT TO BE SPENT IN TRANSPORT AND HANDLING OF
PRECAST MEMBERS. IT BECOMES THEREFORE NECESSARY TO LOCATE THE
PRECAST FACTORY AT SUCH A PLACE THAT TRANSPORT AND HANDLING
CHARGES ARE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE MINIMUM POSSIBLE EXTENT.
9. EQUIPMENT USED FOR LIFT SLABS
HYDRAULIC JACKS
• THIS JACK IS A HYDRAULIC PIECE OF
EQUIPMENT
• THE JACK CAN LIFT SLABS ON
COLUMNS LOADED UP TO 100,000
POUNDS AT SPEEDS OF UP TO 14
FEET AN HOUR
10. EQUIPMENT USED FOR LIFT SLABS
LIFTING COLLARS
LIFTING COLLARS ARE CAST INTO EACH SLAB AROUND
EACH COLUMN PROVIDING A MEANS TO LIFT THE
SLAB AND ALSO PROVIDING SHEAR REINFORCEMENT,
THEY ARE FIXED TO COLUMNS BY WELDING SHEAR
BLOCKS TO PLATES WELDED COLUMN FLANGES AND
TO THE COLLAR AFTER THE SLAB HAS BEEN RAISED IN
POSITION.
11. EQUIPMENT USED FOR LIFT SLABS
SHEAR BLOCK
SHEAR BLOCKS IS A STEEL COMPONENT USED TO
HOLD THE LIFTED SLAB IN ITS FINAL ELEVATION.
12. EQUIPMENT USED FOR LIFT SLABS
• IN LIFT-SLAB CONSTRUCTION BOND-BREAKING COMPOUNDS PERMIT THE SLABS TO BE
SEPARATED CLEANLY AND EASILY FROM ONE ANOTHER.
• BOND BREAKERS INCLUDE WAX DISSOLVED IN A VOLATILE SPIRIT, POLYTHENE SHEET OR
BUILDING PAPER MAY ALSO BE USED AS AN ALTERNATIVE.
BOND BREAKER
• THE MAIN FUNCTION OF BOND BREAKERS IS TO
MINIMIZE DYNAMIC LOADS DURING LIFTING OR STRIPPING
OF PRECAST MEMBERS AND PERMIT THEIR COMPLETE, CLEAN
SEPARATION FROM CASTING SLABS OR MOLDS.
13. Sequences of lift slab for 3 storeyed
building
1 4
3
2
ALL THE SLABS ( FIRST
FLOOR, SECOND FLOOR
AND ROOF SLAB ) ARE
CAST ON SITE AROUND
THE COLUMNS .
ROOF SLAB IS RAISED
USED JACK AND FIXED
AT THE TOP OF
COLUMN.
BOTH FIRST AND
SECOND FLOOR SLABS
WERE RAISED AND FIRST
FLOOR SLAB IS FIXED
AT FIRST .
NOW , THE SECOND
FLOOR SLAB IS BEEN
FIXED.