Category: General Tips
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DEMOULDING SLOPE
Demoulding of precast member without damage to either the components like lifter or mould is critical to successful replication process for the particular complicated design. During mould design, the designers concentrate to make minimum draft (nearly 10 ) on mould to wherever the possible to minimize demoulding force and resultant stress on lifters and prevent…
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CONCRETE WITH SPECIFICATION DIFFERENCE (N & S)
CONCRETE: (AS 1379 Specification and supply of concrete) A mixture of Cement, aggregates and water with or without the addition of chemical admixtures or other materials. Cement: (AS 3972 Portland or blended cement) A hydraulic binder composed of Portland or blended cement used alone or in combination with one or more supplementary cementitious materials. Concrete…
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CONSIDERATRIONS-LIFT SHOP DRAWINGS FOR PRECAST
The important things to be considered in lift shop drawings for precast is listed below: Core Setout. Door Opening. Recess at the bottom of lift door. Landing Call Buttons penetrations. Controller Box Penetrations. Service Penetrations and internal platform box. Lifting Eye Placements & capacity. 1. CORE SETOUT: Lift Core Panels Setout in Concrete plan…
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Stair & Platforms – AS1428 & AS1657 – Online Training, Standards, Codes and Tests
Applicable stairs, and ladders require compliance to: AS1657 standards (by law in most Australian states – Victoria being the exception) – (sorry I can’t source the original copy here because it cost me $500) Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls at workplaces How can you test whether you know the standard? Take…
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Does it Fit? An Example of an Erection feasibility check against particular steel profiles (Detailing Tips: No. 1)
As a detailer, we should constantly inspect and second guess the drawings and the details given to us by engineers and architects (well, mostly architects, because as a general rule, engineers are competent). The Pop-Quiz If you wish to engage in a pop-quiz: see the drawing attached here: Spigot Connection. What problems can you see…
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Create new layer filter
This video explains how to create Layer property filters and layer Group filters for Autocad. nano cad should be same. My nanocad Lic is not yet installed. Using layer filters is a great help to manage your cad files. Using layers p roperly increases your productivity many folds
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Setting dimensions style using a template cad file
You can download the template cad file by clicking this link late dim.dwg fileDIM . It is zipped file only because wordpress does not allow me to upload a .dwg file
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T-Bars, Cut from UB, use fabricated or use ready made
How to manufacture the T Bar is a question which frequently comes up. The various options are Make T-Bar from plates. (Involves welding plates together) Cut from UB. (Might include wastage) Buy Standard T-Bar. (May have its own constraints like minimum quantities) Up until now we were detailing T bars as fabricated using T Plates.…
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First rule of Building and Construction: Make sure it can be built!
“A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” So it is the case also in building and construction. Here is a primer of how and why and where things go wrong – if they do go wrong. As with most things, problems start in the…
