The PNA team is available to conduct PNA product trainings, present Lunch & Learns on industry solutions, or provide a training customized to you and your next concrete flatwork project. Each session will be conducted by PNA team members who provide technical knowledge, experience, and insight from real-world construction industry perspectives. Professional Development Hours (PDH) may be available.
For more information or to shedule: contact marketing@pna-inc.com
Current Lunch & Learn topics:
Successful Slabs: Analytically Driven Dowel Design
- Understanding Concrete Behavior (and what it means for concrete flatwork designs)
- Shrinkage
- Curling
- Cracking
- Dowel Solutions
- Round Dowels vs. Tapered Plate Dowels
- Common Misconceptions (ultimate loading capactiy, performance influencing factors, behind the geometry)
- PNA Design Services
- Custom dowel design optimizations
Successful Slabs: Designing High Performing Joints
- Joint Performance: Roughness and Protection
- Importance of joint protection
- The two mechanisms responsible for joint damage
- When and where to use joint protection
- Dominant joints
- Holistic Optimization of Slab-on-Grade (SOG) considering joint performance
- Custom dowel design optimizations