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Structural Steel Frames 327<br />

Column<br />

Concrete<br />

floor<br />

Steel stirrups<br />

strapped around<br />

beam<br />

Steel<br />

stirrups<br />

strapped<br />

around<br />

column<br />

Beam<br />

Precast ‘U’-section vermiculite<br />

gypsum casing, reinforced with<br />

galvanised wire mesh, is fixed to<br />

stirrups with self-tapping screws<br />

Figure 5.50 Preformed casings.<br />

Column<br />

6 mm diameter<br />

steel rods wired to<br />

straps as spacers<br />

Stainless steel straps<br />

around column at<br />

350 mm centres<br />

Expanded metal<br />

lath fixed to straps<br />

Concrete floor<br />

Beam<br />

Stainless steel<br />

straps around beam<br />

at 350 mm centres<br />

Expanded<br />

metal lath<br />

Angle bead<br />

6 mm steel rods<br />

as spacers<br />

Vermiculite<br />

gypsum plaster<br />

Angle bead<br />

Vermiculite<br />

gypsum plaster<br />

Figure 5.51 Metal lath and plaster casing.

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