Continuous Plate Dowel
Summary
Continuous Plate Dowel - The continuous plate dowel is a load transfer mechanism, which was mostly used in older style armoured joints. They have, however, been found to perform poorly in practice.
Technical Information
The use of continuous plate dowels is not recommended as they have been shown to be weak in resisting bursting shear. It is also difficult to fully and adequately compact the concrete below the plate dowel, so the chance of voiding occurring is significantly increases.
This type of dowel has been superseded by the more useful discrete plate dowel in the UK. However, they are still sometimes used elsewhere in the world.
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