ACI 347-04: Guide to Formwork for Concrete

Objectives of safety, quality and economy are given priority in these guidelines for formwork. A section on contract documents explains the kind and amount of specification guidance an engineer/architect should provide for the contractor. 32 pp.

347-04: Guide to Formwork for Concrete - Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
  • Scope
  • Definitions
  • Achieving economy in formwork
  • Contract documents
• Design
  • General
  • Loads
  • Unit stresses
  • Safety factors for accessories
  • Shores
  • Bracing and lacing
  • Foundations for formwork
  • Settlement
• Construction
  • Safety precautions
  • Construction practices and workmanship
  • Tolerances
  • Irregularities in formed surfaces
  • Shoring and centering
  • Inspection and adjustment of formwork
  • Removal of forms and supports
  • Shoring and reshoring of multistory structures
• Materials
  • General
  • Properties of materials
  • Accessories
  • Form coatings and release agents
• Architectural concrete
  • Introduction
  • Role of the architect
  • Materials and accessories
  • Design
  • Construction
  • Form removal
• Special structures
  • Discussion
  • Bridges and viaducts, including high piers
  • Structures designed for composite action
  • Folded plates, thin shells, and long-span roof structures
  • Mass concrete structures
  • Underground structures
• Special methods of construction,
  • Recommendations
  • Preplaced-aggregate concrete
  • Slipforms
  • Permanent forms
  • Forms for prestressed concrete construction
  • Forms for site precasting
  • Use of precast concrete for forms
  • Forms for concrete placed under water
• References
  • Referenced standards and reports
  • Cited references