WEEK10 SHORING

 Shoring is a temporary construction falsework

support structure applied to a building or
structure.
 In this regulation it requires that all practical
precautions to be taken to avoid danger to any
person from collapse of structure.

Common situations where shoring may be required

are :-

 To give support to walls which are dangerous or

are likely to become unstable due to subsidence,
bulging or leaning.
 To avoid failure of sound walls caused by the
removal of sub-adjacent support such as where a
basement is being constructed near to a sound
wall.
 During demolition works to give support an
adjacent building or structure.
 To support the upper part of wall during
formation of a large opening in the lower section
of the wall.
 To give support to a floor or roof thus enabling a
support wall to be removed and replaced with a
beam.

SHORING SYSTEMS
RAKING SHORES
1. Dead shoring;
 It transfers the floor and wall loads to the
2. Raking shoring; ground by means of sloping struts or rakers.
3. Flying shoring.  It is very important that the rakers are
positioned correctly so that they are capable of
DEAD SHORING receiving maximum wall and floor loads. The
centre fine of the raker should intersect with
 Used to support dead loads which act vertically
the centre lines of the wall or floor bearing.
downwards.
 One raker for each floor is required and ideally
 It consists of a vertical prop or shore leg with a
should be at an angle of between 40o and 70o
head plate, sole plate and some means of
with the horizontal, therefore the number of
adjustment for tightening and basing the shore.
rakers which can be used is generally limited to
 The usual arrangement is to use two shore legs
three. If a four-storey building is to be shored
connected over their heads by a horizontal beam
by this method, therefore an extra member
or needle. The loads are transferred by the
called a rider is added.
needle to the shore legs and hence down to a
solid bearing surface. It may be necessary to
remove paving and cut holes in suspended
timber floors to reach a suitable bearing surface.
 If a basement is encountered, third horizontal
member called a transom will be necessary since
it is impracticable to manhandle a shore leg
through two storey.
 FLYING SHORES

 Have same functions as a raking shore but have

the advantage of providing a clear working space
under the shoring.
 Used between any parallel wall surfaces
providing the span is not in excess of 12.0 m,
otherwise, the arrangement would become
uneconomic. Short spans up to 9.0 m usually
have a single horizontal member whereas the
large spans require two horizontal shores to keep
the section sizes within the timber range
commercially available.
jjnjnjnnjnjnjnjj==  It is possible with all forms of shoring to build up
the principal members from smaller sections by
using bolts and timber connectors, ensuring all
butt joints are well staggered to give adequate
rigidity. This in effect is a laminated timber
construction.

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SYSTEM SHORING

 The shoring materials mentioned above are

mostly of timber. Also, nowadays there are a load
of system shoring which is of a fully braced heavy
duty aluminum support, capable of carrying a
higher maximum leg load capacity.
 The safe axial leg load capacity of the system
shoring varies, depending on the vertical spacing
of the shoring ties.
 This system shoring requires a smaller work force
because of its simplicity, speed of erection,
dismantling and checking of bracing.
 It also have a shoring ties with wedge fittings
which provide a rigid connection that greatly
reduces the effective length of struts formed by
the standards.

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