Timber Concrete Composite Floor Systems

Using timber concrete composite tcc floors in multi storey buildings is a viable lightweight alternative to other flooring systems that offers potential cost savings and environmental benefits.

Timber concrete composite floor systems. Lighter structures using timber as a primary component of the structure results in a lighter structure overall than a traditional steel frame or cast in place concrete scheme. The floor system has a unique combination of low weight spanning capability and sustainability. Structural efficiency is gained by creating composite action between the two materials. Skidmore owings merrill has been researching timber concrete composite floor systems that can satisfy the structural serviceability acoustic and fire requirements of high rise buildings and has recently completed a physical testing program with.

Timber concrete composite systems offer many advantages when compared to single material schemes including lighter floors lower embodied carbon and longer spans. Initially developed to refurbish floors in historical timber buildings tcc have been extensively used for decades mostly in europe. In the 1980s and 1990s special attention was paid to multi storey timber buildings. In the last decade an increasing amount of timber concrete composite structures has been applied for the refurbishment of existing timber floors the introduction of new floor types and as a deck system for timber bridges throughout europe.

Timber concrete composites mass timber research workshop november 3 rd 2015 forest products laboratory presenter. Timber concrete composite tcc systems are increasingly used for upgrading existing timber floors in residential office buildings as well as for buildings and bridges ceccotti 1995. Timber concrete composite floor systems represent a new technology within the united states. Timber concrete composite tcc floors are an example of a successful hybrid system that integrates two materials to achieve a performance superior to that of the individual materials.

Timber concrete composite tcc is a technology which focuses on optimizing performance and material requirements by engineering a structural connection between timber and concrete components. This kind of composite structure offers benefits that. Timber concrete composite tcc floors represent a move to optimise the advantages of both laminated veneer lumber lvl beams and a concrete screed slab combined using defined connection methods to provide composite action.