• U-BOOT

TECHNOLOGY
• INTRODUCTION OF U-BOOT
1. IN 2001 AN ITALIAN ENGINEER, ROBERTO IL GRANDE,DEVELOPED AND
PATENTED A NEW SYSTEM OF HOLLOWFORMERS, IN ORDER TO DECREASE
THE TRANSPORTATION COSTS(AND COZ PRODUCTION). THE U-BOOT
FORMWORK IS A MODULAR ELEMENT MADE OF RECYCLED PLASTIC FOR USE
IN BUILDING LIGHTER STRUCTURES IN REINFORCED CONCRETE CASTAT THE
WORK-SITE THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE OF U-BOOT ISREDUCE THE CONCRETE
QUANTITY.
2. U-BOOT EARLIEST PROJECTS WERE EXECUTED IN 2002 ANDSINCE THAT TIME
IT HAS BEEN USED ALL OVER THE WORLD.
3. U-BOOT SYSTEM CAN BE COMBINED WITH OTHER TECHNOLOGIES LIKE
PREFABRICATED SLABS AND POSTTENSIONED STEEL. THE TECHNOLOGY OF
HOLLOW SLABS WITHPOST TENSIONED STEEL REDUCES THE WEIGHT OF
SLAB AND ITSTHICKNESS.
U-BOOT BELTON
• U BOOT BELTON IS MADEUP
OF RECYCLEDPLASTICS.
WHY WE GO FOR U-BOOT ?

• THE MAIN DISADVANTAGE OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCTIONS,

INCASE OF HORIZONTAL SLABS, IS THE HIGH WEIGHT WHICH
LIMITS THE SPAN.
• FOR THIS REASON BASIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES HAVE FOCUSED ON
ENHANCING THE SPAN, EITHER BY REDUCING THE WEIGHT OR
OVERCOMING CONCRETE'S NATURAL WEAKNESS IN TENSION.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
• FORM WORK
• REINFORCEMENT
• PLACING OF U BOOT SHELLS
• PLACING OF TRIANGULAR REINFORCEMENT
• CONCRETING
• CURING
 SHEAR RESISTANCE
• THE MAIN DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN A SOLID SLAB AND
A HOLLOWBIAXIAL SLAB IS A
SHEAR RESISTANCE. DUE TO
THE REDUCEDCONCRETE
VOLUME, THE SHEAR
RESISTANCE WILL ALSO
BEREDUCED.
 • CARRYING CAPACITY
• TEST HAVE SHOWN THAT FOR A BUBBLE DECK SLAB WITH THESAME
LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY CAN BE USED ONLY 50% OF THE CONCRETE
REQUIRED FOR A SOLID SLAB, OR WITH THE SAME THICKNESS OF A
BUBBLE DECK SLAB THE LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY CAN BE INCREASED
UP TWO TIME BY USING 65% OF CONCRETE.
• SOUND RESISTANCE
• Due to this bubble deck slab the concrete quantity isless
compared to normal solid slab and providing therecycled plastic
shells so the sound resistance is more.
• GENERAL BENEFITS OF THE SYSTEM

• DESIGN FREEDOM
• DOWN STAND BEAMS AND BEARING WALLS ELIMINATED
• REDUCING OVERALL COSTS
• REDUCED DEAD WEIGHT
• LONGER SPANS BETWEEN COLUMNS
• CONSTRUCTION IS LESS WEATHER DEPENDENT
• REDUCED FOUNDATION SIZES
• REDUCED CONCRETE USAGE
• ENVIRONMENTALLY GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE
• ANOTHER USE
• IN THIS BOOT BELTON IS USED FOR NOT ONLY IN THE
SLABALSO USED FOR FOUNDATION.
• ADVANTAGES
• INCREASED NUMBER OF FLOORS.
• LARGE SPAN.
• REDUCED SLAB THICKNESS.
• NO BEAMS BETWEEN PILLARS.
• REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF PILLARS.
• REDUCTION IN THE OVERALL LOAD OF THE STRUCTURE WEIGHING ON THE PILLARS AND THE
FOUNDATION.
• REDUCED FOUNDATIONS - LESS DEEP FOUNDATION EXCAVATION.
• IMPROVED ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR.
• ECONOMIC.