Benefits of Using Decon® Studrails®
Cut building costs without cutting corners.
Decon® Studrails® provide a lower overall in-place cost when compared to other existing punching shear control alternatives.
Studrails® have been designed to reduce your formwork and labor costs by:
- Eliminating the need for column capitals and stirrups.
- Permitting more efficient use of fly-forms.
- Reducing installation time and effort versus conventional rebar stirrups and hairpins.
- Reducing congestion around slab-column connections, allowing quicker installation of conduit, PT tendons and other embedments.
Decon® Studrails® are engineered to enhance the strength and integrity of slab-column connections by:
- Distributing forces over a greater critical section to prevent punching shear.
- Providing higher ultimate strength and more ductile behavior of the concrete slab through efficient anchorage.
- Developing the full yield strength of the studs in tension and making it possible to use thinner post-tensioned slabs in designs governed by shear.
- Providing predetermined stud locations, virtually eliminating field placement errors.
Additional benefits of Decon® Studrails®:
- Studrails® allow greater flexibility of design.
- Studrails® are secured to the formwork with special chairs that maintain the verticality of the studs and ensure proper top and bottom concrete cover.
- By providing a stress path, Decon® Studrails® enable punching shear control at slab-column connections with openings.
Decon® Studrails® are the subject of ICBO ES Evaluation Report #5078.
Decon® Studrails® meet the requirements of ACI 318-99 R11.12.3,ACI 421.1R-99 and CSA A23.3-94.
Decon® Studrails® arrive on your jobsite, ready to install, with proper dimensions, spacing, quality connections, standoffs and color-coding.
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Studrails® in the News
Decon® Studrails® featured in American Architectural Review. To see this clip, click here.
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