7 icatneport No 43 Cores Post-tensioned Concrete Floors — Design Handbook Report of a Concrete Society Working Party 87304Concrete Society Technical Report No. 43 TRO Published 1994 ISBN 0946691 45 2 Published by ‘The Concrete Society No.3, Eatongate Windsor Road Slough $L12JA Further copies may be obtained from Publication Sales, The Concrete Society © The Concrete Society 1994 All rights reserved, except as permitted under current legislation. No part of this work may be photo- copied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of copyright owner, Enquiries should be addressed to The Concrete Society. Although The Concrete Society (limited by guarantee) does its best to ensure that any advice, recom- mendations or information it may give either in this publication or elsewhere is accurate, no liability or responsibility of any kind (including liability for negligence) howsoever and from whatsoever cause arising, is accepted in this respect by the Society, its Servants or agents.CONCRETE SOCIETY TECHNICAL REPORT POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE FLOORS ~ DESIGN HANDBOOK This Technical Report was prepared by a Working Party of the Society's Design Group which is one of the specialist technical groups within The Technical Development Centre. Members of the Working Party ME Raiss (Convenor) Robert Benaim and Associates MA, MSc, DIC, PhD, CEng, MICE, MISwuctE GABell CCL Systems Lid BSc, CEng, MICE PW Mathew Swift Structures Lid BE, MSc, MIE Aust. RT Whittle ‘Ove Arup and Partners, MA(Cantab), CEng, MICE