Appeal No. 2002-2090
Application 08/430,311
for carrying bending moment tension stresses for said deck panel
structure on said forming structure, for the purpose of holding
said flexural reinforcement means for carrying bending moment
tension stresses above said forming structure, but in what will
be the lower half of said concrete deck panel structure;
c. installing said flexural reinforcement means for
carrying bending moment tension stresses on said supports; and
then
d. placing unset concrete over and around said
flexural reinforcement means for carrying bending moment tension
stresses, wherein the upper half of said deck panel structure,
intermediate the furthest apart structural support elements, is
substantially free of flexural reinforcement means for carrying
bending moment tension stresses, whereby, when said concrete deck
panel structure is set, said upper half intermediate the two
furthest separated structural support elements is substantially
plain concrete, wherein said plain concrete being a structural
concrete in which said plain concrete carries all the flexural
tensile stresses and which said plain concrete is characterized
as a structural concrete whose maximum flexural strength is
attained at the cracking load thereof.
72. A process for constructing a load bearing concrete deck
panel structure using pre-cast panels supported on structural
elements spanning between lower supports and a structurally
bonded upper layer, and comprising the steps of:
a. installing pre-cast concrete deck panels containing
flexural reinforcing means for carrying bending moment tension
stresses; and then
b. casting a layer of concrete which is substantially
free of flexural reinforcing means for carrying bending moment
tension stresses over said pre-cast concrete deck panels,
whereby, when said cast concrete layer is set, it is
substantially plain concrete,
wherein said plain concrete being a structure concrete
in which said plain concrete carries all the flexural tensile
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