Concrete Flooring for large Warehouse

mazen268
By mazen268
Dear Mrs / Mr.
Initially I would like to request you in sending for me the answer for the following :
              (a)  Concrete Slab Repair
          (b)  Concrete Floor Repair
          (c)  Expansion Joint and Control Joint Repair
          (d)  General Crack Repair.
note :
My concrete slab for the flooring with a thickness of 10 cm and wire mesh steel 6/ 20 cm including hardener on top .
I have made construction joint between two slabs , with saw cutting, The works consist of [  precast element Double T's ] .
The flooring used as ware house for racking system with heavy fork lift traffic .
Thanking you
Best Regards
Mazen
By Ransom• 29 May 2006 18:37
Rating: 5/5
Ransom

If you are saying you have a 10cm (4-inch) concrete slab on grade which is being used for heavy fork lift traffic, my first reaction would be that the slab is probably going to cracked and failing in numerous places. As a structural engineer, I would never specify a slab being used in a warehouse with fork lift traffic less than 15cm or about 6-inches thick.

Concrete repair can be made on cracked slabs and it usually consists of either cutting out a section if it is badly damaged and replacing or by using injected epoxy joint grouts. There are numerous products available but I do not know what is stocked in Qatar.

It sounds like that even if you repair the cracks you have now though, with the type of traffic to which you are subjecting the slab, it will continue to deterioate. I could help more if I were there but we are not schedule to arrive until July.

Send me some pictures of the problem at [email protected] and I may be able to advise more accurately.

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