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Design and Construction of Concrete Floors book cover

3rd Edition

Design and Construction of Concrete Floors

By George Garber Copyright 2025
332 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

332 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press
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Design and Construction of Concrete Floors recognizes that a good floor must do far more than support its intended loads. This thoroughly updated third edition provides further insight into polished concrete, limestone cement, and jointless floors for an international audience of structural engineers, architects, and building developers. This book discusses structural design, crack control,... Read more

Introduction: Thinking about Floor Design

 

Part 1: How Floors are Used

1. Nonindustrial Floors

2. Warehouses

3. Factory Floors and Special Cases

 

Part 2: Structural Design

4. Structural design of ground-supported floors

5. Structural design of suspended floors

 

Part 3: Materials

6. Properties of plastic concrete

7. Properties of hardened concrete

8. The components of concrete

9. Mix design and mixing

10. Transporting and placing concrete

11. Curing

12. Reinforcement

Part 4: Joints and Cracks

13. Cracks

14. Curling

15. Joints

16. Crack control in ground-supported floors

17. Crack control in suspended floors

 

Part 5: The Floor Surface

18. Floor finishing

19. Concrete toppings

20. Surface Regularity

21. Resistance to wear and chemical attack

22. Preparation for floorcoverings

 

Part 6 Sustainability

23. Reducing Carbon Footprint

Index

Biography

George Garber has worked as a consulting engineer on the design and construction of concrete floors since 1979. He is a voting member of ASTM Committee E6 on the Performance of Buildings.

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