U – BOOT TECHNOLOGY

SYNOPSIS
In present days, enhancing of population taking place day by day and due to excess
population, enhancing of traffic is also taking place. Due to heavy traffic, accidents are also
increasing because of congestion of roads. To reduce the congestion on roads, the pavements
provided to be widened and hence the number of lanes must be increased. But due to minimum
budget, contractors are building limited number of lanes which causes accidents. This paper
presents a new methodology to increase the number of lanes without exceeding the cost. This can
work out with U-Boot technology. It is the technique applied where U-Boots can be placed in deck
slab along with concrete and steel with proper arrangement. As U-Boot is a plastic product, it
minimizes the self weight of deck slab and also reduces the depth of slab with same strength. It
also reduces the amount of concrete and steel provided on deck slab. The quantity of concrete and
steel saved by placing U-Boots can be used for constructing other lanes. For modeling NX-CAD
software is used and for analysis NX-NASTRAN is used. The details of modeling and analysis are
presented in this paper.

U-boot beton is a formwork made of recycled polypropylene, designed to create lightened

intermediate slabs and raft foundations in reinforced concrete. The use of U-boot formworks
permits to build specific mushroom slabs: the mushroom is part of the slab thickness. U-boot
remains dip into the concrete casting. Thus, a grid of orthogonal beams, superiorly and inferiorly
closed by plane slabs of different heights, is obtained without executing two distinct concrete
castings, all that implies a remarkable saving of concrete and reinforcement.

U-boot is used for structural elements of different types such as slabs or foundation grants
solution preformation considerable designing technical and economic. Disposable formwork for
two-way voided slabs in reinforced concrete cast on site. U-Boot Beton is a recycled polypropylene
formwork that was designed to create two-way voided slabs and rafts. U-Boot Beton is used to
create slabs with large span or that are able to support large loads without beams A lightweight,
cellular concrete made by infusing an unhardened concrete mixture with prepared foam or by
generating gases within the mixture.

TALMEEZ . M. KUNDGOL

USN : 2KE17CV417