Investigating the Adequacy of Vertical Design Loads for Shoring

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• Personal Author:
  Huston DR ; Kothekar AV ; Rosowsky DV
• Description:
  In contrast to design of structures for their service life, very little information is provided to the engineer for selecting appropriate design loads for construction. Before new design loads or load combinations can be recommended or existing recommended values modified, the adequacy of current design loads for construction must be evaluated. This can be accomplished only by comparing actual load data with design loads prescribed by available standards. This paper presents the results of one such study to investigate the adequacy of current construction load provisions in the context of vertical loads on shores during reinforced concrete construction. Construction load provisions from ACI 347, the OSHA standard, ANSI A10.9, and the proposed ASCE construction load standard are first reviewed. Design loads recommended by available standards are evaluated and compared with actual (measured) axial shore loads. Shore load data from six sites are considered, including two recently instrumented projects and four multistory buildings studied previously. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Concretes Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Injury-prevention Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices
• ISSN:
  0887-3828
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 1 ; Vermont
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  41-47
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024520
• Citation:
  J Perform Constr Facil 1998 Feb; 12(1):41-47
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Performing Organization:
  University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19940101
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
• End Date:
  19970929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d7439bfa89af8ad150a8f0e9ff146e7db2187a5305392a894ec521ea993f387dee746da960d6f595d14cd92b16c11d5d0913c11196516ee80fc2dbb07abeffe7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196289/cdc_196289_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.85 MB ]