Prefabricated Panel Mating Sections Workshop Machining

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for producing prefabricated components, such as double-walled panels, face challenges including complex and imprecise base plate production, water penetration through construction joints, and labor-intensive site alignment and assembly, leading to high construction costs and inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

The method involves machining mating sections under controlled workshop conditions using laser measurements and computer-controlled tools to achieve precise fitments, allowing components to be assembled with tight tolerances and secured with screws, eliminating the need for on-site individual setup and reducing assembly efforts by using adjustable built-in parts and hardening plastic mass.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If base plates are produced using traditional methods at the construction site, then flexibility in assembly is maintained, but manufacturing precision and alignment accuracy deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebase plate precisionVSAvoidproduction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The base plates are pre-produced with integrated mounting parts in a controlled workshop environment before delivery to the construction site. This preliminary action allows precise machining and quality control to be performed under optimal conditions, eliminating the need for complex on-site production operations while ensuring high manufacturing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If components are assembled with individual setup and support at the construction site, then adaptability to site conditions is maintained, but assembly time and labor costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassembly speedVSAvoidassembly time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Mounting parts are pre-installed on the components during workshop production, and mating sections are pre-machined to precise tolerances. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for time-consuming individual setup and support operations at the construction site, allowing components to be quickly assembled by simply connecting the pre-prepared mating sections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If construction joints are used between floor slab and wall slab, then structural flexibility is maintained, but water tightness and sealing quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewater tightnessVSAvoidconstruction joint complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting parts are integrated directly into the base plates during workshop production, merging what would traditionally be separate components (base plate and mounting hardware). This integration eliminates construction joints between floor and wall slabs, providing inherent water tightness while reducing the complexity of sealing details.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Manufacturing precision

If mating sections are machined under controlled workshop conditions, then manufacturing precision is improved, but production process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemating section precisionVSAvoidproduction ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

All mating sections are machined to precise tolerances during the initial workshop production phase while components are being manufactured. This preliminary machining action takes advantage of the controlled workshop environment and fixed positioning, achieving high precision that would be difficult to obtain on-site, while the standardized processes keep production manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach enables precise, cost-effective, and efficient production of prefabricated components with no construction joints, significantly reducing construction costs and improving execution quality by ensuring accurate alignment and assembly of components at the site.

Implementation Method 1

The plates are expediently measured using a laser

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLaser: Laser

Implementation Method 2

the fitting sections of the built-in parts are machined according to plan using a computer-controlled machine tool

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectComputer-controlled machining:

Implementation Method 3

the space between the panels of the double-walled prefabricated components is poured with hardening plastic mass

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHardening plastic mass:

Data Source

PatentEP2601358B1Method for producing prefabricated structural parts
Publication Date: 2015.10.14 REDLBERGER ALFRED
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for producing prefabricated structural parts (5, 14) from a setting plastic compound for erecting buildings, in which the setting compound is filled into a shuttering and left to set into panels, two panels (12, 13) being joined together if necessary by means of reinforcements placed into the shutterings to form a double-walled panel (14). The built-in parts (3, 4, 20, 20'), which serve for the adjustable support of the prefabricated structural parts and/or for joining them to one another, are attached to the edge regions of the panels or double-walled panels, wherein the built-in parts (3, 11, 11', 20, 20') have fitting portions (8, 10, 21, 23), which serve as adjusting and joining points with respect to neighbouring panels or double-walled panels. In a further method step, the fitting portions are worked at positions that are fixed with respect to the panels or double-walled panels, in order to compensate for deviations in the position of the fitting portions from the intended dimensions of the panels or double-walled panels. The invention also relates to prefabricated structural parts produced by the method.