Vibration Isolation:
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On laid raft, upper vibratory massive concrete block has to be laid.
Neoprene pads mounted on steel plates should be designed & procured from specialist manufacturer.
These pads are small sqare in plan with considerable resistance of Neoprene 20 or 25mm thick. Hardly, these would require 10 to 15 % area of the RCC raft.
Specialist manufacturer would assist the procurer about the design capacity of the Neoprene pads. These pads are for sure very resistive to the sustainable forces & may not be required to be fixed on the whole surface.
These steel plates are to be connected to the raft using steel manufactured concrete nails.
These pads after being installed, require surrounding RCC surface to be covered with polystyrene material.
All these mountings & polystyrene materials are to be covered with flexible polystyrene covered with rubber sheet over.
A steel lamina or plate has to be fabricated using angle sections so that plate can be lifted & placed on the isolation system. Plate shall be fabricated by welding.
The Design Rebars are to be placed.
The formworks are to be prepared.
All angles of the lamina must be embedded into the concrete. Plane side of the lamina should face other side of concrete isolation touching rubber sheet.
Grooves need be left as block outs for grouting purpose.
The foregoing system is meant for the horizontal body while, vertical sides require another vertical isolation system in a similar fashion but without steel lamina.
Corners require additional system too.
I have done such work in 1984 in SPLAJ Libya design procured from SACM France.
Regards