Modular Six-Axis Concrete Form System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing form systems for poured-concrete footings lack high-precision adjustability, particularly in six-axis (X, Y, Z, pitch, roll, and yaw) adjustments, which is crucial for accurately positioning and aligning column-support footings in complex structural frames, especially in large oil and gas facilities.
Innovation Solution
A modular, six-axis-adjustable form structure comprising reversibly stackable, independent templates that allow for precise spatial and rotational adjustments, enabling the fabrication of high-precision poured-concrete footings with upwardly projecting anchor bolts, accommodating various configurations and facilitating the assembly of structural frames.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional form systems are used for poured-concrete footings, then the fabrication process is simpler, but the positioning precision and alignment accuracy of column-support footings are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The form system is divided into multiple independent templates (grade template, pedestal template, base-plate template, anchor-bolt template) that can be assembled in a vertical stack. Each template handles specific adjustment functions, allowing the system to achieve high precision through modular components rather than a single complex unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The templates incorporate six-axis adjustability mechanisms that allow dynamic positioning adjustments during fabrication. The system can be adjusted along X, Y, and Z axes and rotated about pitch, roll, and yaw axes, enabling precise adaptation to various column configurations while maintaining overall system simplicity.
2Measurement precision
If high-precision six-axis adjustments are implemented, then the alignment accuracy of footings improves, but the device complexity and number of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
Each template in the vertical stack serves multiple functions. For example, the grade template provides both a reference plane for leveling and adjustment mechanisms for six-axis positioning. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components for each adjustment function, maintaining measurement precision while controlling overall device complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modular reversibly stackable templates are used, then the adaptability and reusability of the form system improve, but the assembly and disassembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The templates are designed with pre-configured connection interfaces and alignment features that enable rapid assembly. The vertical stack arrangement is predetermined, allowing workers to quickly assemble the system by stacking templates in the correct sequence without complex alignment procedures, thus reducing assembly time while maintaining high adaptability.
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AI summary
A precision fabrication form system for preparing a poured-concrete (with upwardly projecting anchor bolts) footing for anchorably supporting the base of an elongate, upright, structural-frame column. The system includes a reversibly stackable plurality of independent, intercooperative, fabrication-form templates—grade, pedestal, base-plate, anchor-bolt and centerline—reversibly assembleable in a predetermined stack order above a prepared ground excavation into which concrete pouring to be associated with such a footing is to occur, certain ones of these templates being infinitely adjustable relative to one another and to the ground in both pre-pour and post-pour conditions to accommodate staged, precision, X-axis, Y-axis, Z-axis, and pitch, roll and yaw axes dispositions for the concrete and anchor bolts in such a footing.