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Slip Forming: The New Era of Formwork of Unusual Structure: March 2014
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Student of first year M.E (Construction Engineering & Management), B.V.M Engineering College,
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Assistant Professor and Research Scholar, Civil Engineering Department, B.V.M. Engineering
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Abstract: Slip forming is the best techniques which carried out fast and rapid construction in
an unusual structure like cooling towers, chimneys, silo and also in roadway construction
bridge construction. Slip formwork techniques carried out with more than 16 m height
structure and its very rapid and time saving erection techniques and also economical. Slip
forming considers mainly 7.2 m per day which is fastest erection procedure. They content
various components and after the completion of curtain height concreting by the hydraulic
jack it lifted up and further concreting could be done. Hence these methods are rapid, time
saving; economical and less labor force is required.
INTRODUCTION
Slip forming is an economical, rapid and accurate form of construction that can be used to
build concrete, reinforced concrete, or pre-stressed concrete structures. Although slip forming
is not suitable for all types of structures, it can be used to construct a wide variety of
structures such as silos, chimneys, building cores, bridge piers, and cooling towers. Slip
formwork used for vertical as well as horizontal continues structure. This type of formwork
system is economical and also less labour work required in construction, it is totally depends
upon automation eraction techniques.
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As the form is raised, it can be adjusted to vary the taper of the structure and the thickness of
the wall as needed. The rate at which the form is raised is between 5 to 30 cm/hour as per
requirements. This around the clock operation results in a construction rate between 1.2 to 7.2
m/day, which cannot be attained by any other construction method.
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29th March, 2014, Civil Engineering Department S.N.P.I.T. & R.C., Umrakh
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Slip Form
Ribs
Yokes
Working platform or Deck
Suspended scaffolding
Lifting jacks
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Disadvantages
Greater time required for arranging of various components.
Expert supervision and operations needed for uniform movement of the slip form system.
Stocking of material on the site is difficult.
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Safety features
Working platforms, guard rails, ladders and windshields should built into the completed
system.
Completed formwork assembly is robust and strong enough.
Strength of concrete must be checked at certain time intervals.
Site operatives can quickly become familiar with health and safety aspects of their job
site.
All parts should move in uniform rate, there should be no jam in formwork or jack.
Lateral support of forms must be provided.
Economical consideration
This type of form works only economical when the height of the structure is a minimum
of 16m high.
The thickness of the wall should be a minimum 15cm.
This system is only suitable for a structure like silo, cooling towers, chimneys, tall
building and piers.
CASE STUDY
A.P.C. Herington company project (USA) was chosen as a case study in current seminar. It
included Raw Meal Silos and towers with 6000-ton cement production per day. All silos and
towers of the cement factory were constructed using a slip-form lifting system. The silo was
designed to store raw material.
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This case study is to investigate the possibility of using slip forming in varying construction
sectors.
CONCLUSION
With the invention of slip forming technique and due to speedier completion of work by
the technique, there are substantial savings in cost in terms of wages and interest. This
technique has no comprises against quality control and Homogeneity of structure.
The cost saving will not appear automatically just because slip forming has been used.
This technique has a lot of scope for improvement. But it can be adapted for tall structure.
Thus a slip form system involves:-
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Authors thankfully acknowledge to Dr. C. L. Patel, Chairman, Charutar Vidya Mandal,
Er.V.M.Patel, Hon.Jt. Secretary, Charutar Vidya Mandal, Mr. Yatinbhai Desai, Jay Maharaj
construction, Dr. F.S.Umrigar, Principal, B.V.M. Engineering College, Dr. L.B.Zala, Head
and Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Dr. A. K. Verma, Head and Professor,
Structural Engineering Department, B.V.M. Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar,
Gujarat, India for their motivations and infrastructural support to carry out this research.
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