Load Bearing Floor Insulation

Styrofoam brand highload extruded polystyrene foam insulation is a closed cell foam insulation designed for use in runways and other heavy weight infrastructure.

Load bearing floor insulation. Levelling plates to assist a fast and accurate installation fail safes lateral restraints load spreading to ensure the load from the structure is evenly spread over the entire area of the isolation bearings disproportionate collapse measures such as acoustically isolated. Vibration insulation materials performance of most of the modern residential and office buildings is impossible without life supporting engineering equipment. Owens corning foamular 400 600 1000 extruded polystyrene insulation is a high density insulation designed for use in engineered applications requiring additional load bearing capability. It is comprised of an extruded polystyrene closed cell foam panel with continuous skin face and back surfaces.

Timber flooring on polyethylene slip sheet insulating a solid ground floor below the ground bearing concrete slab can be done using either pir insulation boards or eps insulation boards. A point load applied to a floor where the insulation is positioned below a thin screed will result in a higher applied load on the insulation than where the insulation was positioned below a thicker floor slab because the load is bearing on a smaller area of insulation under the screed. Owens corning s patented hydrovac. Point loads are spread by the layers above the insulation so that the load acting on the insulation is lower than the load applied to the floor surface.

Wearing concrete slab the floor slab that contains either a square fabric mesh or fibres. The load bearing walls and the floor slab of the building sit on top of an eps layer typically with trenches cut into the insulation near the perimeters for a ring beam of reinforced concrete to support the external walls though the entire floor contributes to supporting the weight of the building. Insulation required for thermally sensitive environments which typically require ultra flat and level surfaces. Bearing assembly see fig 1 2.

Joints in ground bearing slabs tend to be present for two reasons. In a solid or ground bearing because it is continuously supported by the ground across its whole area concrete floor the choice of insulation position relative to the concrete slab is commonly linked to the building s heating system.