Embodied Carbon, Fire Rating, Acoustic, and Vibration Data for Eight Concrete Floor Systems
Description
This dataset provides the geometric information, embodied carbon emissions, and analytically-obtained performance of three secondary design objectives (fire-resistance rating, air-borne sound insulation, and walking vibration criteria) for eight concrete floor systems when parametrically assessing different structural design parameters (i.e., span, concrete compressive strength, live load, dead load, and deflection limit). The corresponding Excel spreadsheet provides the information when considering: 1) only structural limit states, 2) structural limit states and fire rating, 3) structural limit states and acoustics, and 4) structural limit states and vibrations. The results and interpretation can be read in the corresponding journal paper (currently in review).
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All concrete floors were designed to satisfy structural concrete design code (ACI 318) while minimizing embodied carbon emissions and considering secondary design objectives (fire rating, acoustics, and vibrations). The structural equations and methodologies can be found in the supplementary document corresponding to the journal paper (in review) associated with this dataset. The journal paper (in review) provides the equations and methodologies used to determine the performance for each design objective.