The Nautilus system consists on a recycled polypropylene modular single use formwork, designed to highly enlighten slabs.
The use of Nautilus blocks originates a slab composed of a bottom and a top layer ou concrete, connected by an orthogonal rib mesh, forming an “I” shaped section.
Due to the high inertia of this slab (approximately 80% of a solid slab of equivalent thickness) this solution leads to more economy efficient slabs.
The Nautilus system is practical, easy and quickly deployable on site. It presents a stability suitable to allow the execution of all the jobs related to rebar installation and casting with ease and stability.
Main features:
- Low self-weight
- High slab inertia
- Column localization structural flexibility
- Works as an infinitely rigid planar diaphragm (seismic actions)
- Long spans possibly (eventually associated with post tensioning)
- Beamless, plane, inferior surface (plane ceilings)
