[en] In the civil engineering are the industrial floors in the background. There don't exist the standards for finished industrial floors and their execution and also not for testing of the properties of the flooring materials. The current aproach to the design and construction of industrial pavements in many cases is based on wide, mostly negative experiences which have been gained through time.
Nowadays with development of industrial and storage technology the industrial floors have to fulfiel many special requirements for intended use and the importancy of them is increasing. This is the reason for the needs for the relevant regulation for proper designing, construction and controll of industrial floors with the relevant testing methods.
Many of test methods are succefully used in the field of industrial floors and also exist in some developed contries some regulation mostly as a guidelines or reports. But it is neccessary to develope advanced regulation for designing, construction and controll of industrial floors.
For this development they are very useful the European standards for repair and protection of concrete construction of series EN 1504 becouse of their similarities with the industrial floors.
In this chapter there are collected testing procedures suitable for testing of flooring materials as well as of finished industrial floors or industrial floors in construction and standards and regulations on this topic used in different countries.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Courard, Luc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur GeMMe > Matériaux de construction non métalliques du génie civil
