Basic methods of reinforcing steel structures - Assessment and Refurbishment of Steel Structures - page 116

Figure 4.36 View of a load-bearing
structure for equipment for catching
and removing dirt
and removed to the stock pile. The photograph in Figure 4.36 and a cross-section of the
structure in Figure 4.37 may serve to illustrate this description.
The need to increase the weight of the vehicles that pick out and remove the dirt
resulted in the need to check the load-bearing system. Static calculations showed a low
loading capacity of the orthotropic flooring, which was insufficient to accommodate the
movement of the wheeled vehicle required.
Because the main load-bearing system had a sufficient capacity reserve, the suggested
solution was to reinforce the orthotropic flooring by coupling it with a monolithic
reinforced concrete plate which was laid on the existing flooring to an