The fire resistance rating of concrete masonry walls depends on the type of aggregate used in the units.
Ff unit wall concrete.
Concrete masonry is well suited for below grade applications because of its strength durability economy and resistance to fire insects and noise.
F numbers provide architects and contractors a method of determining the flatness and levelness of a concrete floor slab.
What are ff and fl numbers.
Due to concrete shrinkage and slab curling ff fl numbers diminish with time.
Concrete strength al ൯ne for an 10 thick wall with 5 10 and 2 5 clear to strength steel will only reduce the nominal moment capacity of the secti對on from 136 68 to 135 66 inch kips 尩 if the concrete strength decreased from 3 5 to 3 0 ksi.
In this article properties of materials employed in the construction of reinforced concrete masonry walls are discussed.
The f f concrete corporation provides quality concrete products in an efficient safe and cost effective manner.
The cantilever retaining wall shown below is backþlled with granular material having a unit weight of 19 knm3 and an internal angle of friction of 30.
A 2 hour rating can be achieved by a wall with an equivalent thickness of as little as 3 1 5 inches when expanded slag or pumice is used or 4 1 2 inches when siliceous gravel is used as the aggregate.
Reinforced concrete masonry wall is constructed by assembling of masonry units for example concrete block or bricks mortars reinforcing and sometimes grout that is a kind of soupy concrete.
T wall is a gravity retaining wall system consisting of modular precast concrete units and select backfill.
Specifically joints and cracks curl making the floor less flat with the passage of time.
Assuming that the allowable bearing pressure of the soil is 120 knm2 the coefþcient of friction is 0 4 and the unit weight of reinforced concrete is 24 knm3 1.
The concrete units are facing with monolithic perpendicular stems forming the shape of a t.
Since it was introduced in the 1970s f numbers have proven to be useful in measuring and improving concrete floor flatness and levelness.
They are calculated using the standards set forth in astm e1155 which is the standard test method for determining fffloor flatness and flfloor levelness numbers.