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Can you name this structural roof system?

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Aug 13, 2006
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We are doing some minor modifications to this hollow corrugated concrete structural system. The corrugations are used as ducts... so at the center of each of the corrugations, there is a penetration in the supporting concrete beam.
 
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Nice... it looks like a folded plate a bit...

Dik
 
The system spans 70 feet between beams.
 
Span is consistent with a folded plate... main rfg at top and bottom 'points' with adjacent plate providing lateral support (like a series of arches). Matter of taking a look at the last panel to see how it is braced.

Dik
 
What does it look like from above? Does the roof follow the same ridge/valley pattern as the ceiling? Or is it flat roof, with a flat structural slab over the entire system? I have seen both.
 
Page 29 of the Dec 2009 Concrete International pictures a precast system like this. Prestressed, hollow box girders carrying mechanical services inside.

It appears to be this system.
 
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