Lightweight steel concrete structures (LSCS) - an innovative building structure type that can be used both as load-bearing and as enclosing one. They consist of profiled steel usually galvanized and cold-bent - filled with a monolithic foam concrete with a 200kg/m3 density, and with fiber cement sheets sheathing. These structures can be used in industrial and civil buildings as internal and external bearing and enclosing wall structures, and as slabs. According to the LSCS production method, prefabricated panels (walls and slabs) and building site performed constructions are distinguished. The article presents the LSCS subspecies, representing slabs panels made of galvanized profiled steel, density medium grade D400 monolithic foam concrete and sheets “Steklotsem” sheathing, bearing capacity experimental studies results. The paper confirms that such panels can be used in civil buildings and withstand the appropriate load, regulated by the current codes and rules. Moreover, it has been experimentally proved that the foam concrete, despite its own extremely low strength class, actually includes in the operation, preventing such effects as stability local loss, crushing and profile steel elements cross-section warping and increases the slabs overall load capacity by 20-25%.
The article presents the results of researched moisture indicators and strength characteristics of foam concrete with the various additives using. Foam concrete is produced both in a factory and on a construction site, has a density of 200 kg/m3 and is used in the innovative building structures type lightweight steel concrete structures (LSCS). Diatomite, microsilica, granite, perlite and vermiculite were used in sample production. As a part of the research, tests were carried out under the P-20 pressure to determine the ultimate limit load that the samples withstood. Then they were placed in a drying oven to determine the moisture mass removed from the samples during drying to a completely dry state, after which the moisture content values were set. The dependence between the moisture index and the strength characteristics of foam concrete is shown. It is established that samples of foam concrete with the perlite addition are the most durable. In addition, it is shown that the foam concrete with the vermiculite addition has the lowest moisture. It was determined that only for samples with the vermiculite addition, the correction coefficient depending on the moisture index differs in its value from the coefficients for the other samples, and, therefore, it had the greatest influence on the strength characteristics value of this series.
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