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Education & Training

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