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[PDF] [eBook] for Prestressed Concrete, 5th Edition, By R F. Warner, Stephen Foster, Andrew Kilpatrick, Rebecca Gravina

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction ........................................ 1 Prestressed concrete ......................................................................... 1 Prestressing as a design option ...... .................................................... 10 Use of high-strength tendons and cables ........................................ 12 Methods of prestressing .................................................................. 15 Anchorage and bond of tendons ..................................................... 19 Cable profile and level of prestress ................................................ 21 References ...................................................................................... 23 CHAPTER 2 Properties of materials .................... 25 Introduction .................................................................................... 25 Properties of prestressing steel ....................................................... 26 Properties of reinforcing steel ........................................................ 32 Strength properties of concrete ....................................................... 33 Short-term deformation of concrete ............................................... 36 Shrinkage of concrete ..................................................................... 39 Creep of concrete under constant stress ......................................... 45 Concrete creep under varying stress ............................................... 53 References ...................................................................................... 58 CHAPTER 3 Methods of design and analysis .... 61 The structural design process ......................................................... 61 Design objectives and design criteria for prestressed concrete ...... 62 Design criteria and structural reliability ......................................... 65 AS 3600 design checks for prestressed concrete ............................ 66 The critical stress method of design ............................................... 72 Methods of analysis ........................................................................ 72 Strut-and-tie modelling and stress-fields ........................................ 74 References ...................................................................................... 80 [Show More]

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