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Prestressed Concrete

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 221-0302/02
Abbreviation PRB
Course title Prestressed Concrete
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Structures
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavlína Matečková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

1. Principle of prestressed concrete. Effect of prestressing on structures, equivalent load method.
2. Statically determinate and indeterminate effect of prestressing. Pressure line, concordant cable, linear transformation of cable.
3. Design of prestressing using load balancing method. Design using limitation of normal stress. Design using concordant cable.
4. Basic terminology, prestressing reinforcement. Technology of post tensioned prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems and its components. Single cable and multi cable systems and manufacturing procedure.
5. Technology of pre tensioned concrete.
6. Short term changes of prestressing. Changes of prestressing due to shrinkage, slip in anchoring, elastic deformation, progressive prestressing. Short term changes due to relaxation of reinforcement.
7. Long term changes of prestressing. Changes of prestressing due to reinforcement relaxation and concrete creep and shrinkage.
8. Time dependent analysis. Limitation of normal stress. Cable detaining.
9. Bending moment load bearing capacity. State of decompression. Basic stress, basic prestressing force.
10. Analysis of ultimate and serviceability limit state using initial stress.
11. Shear force and torsion load bearing capacity. Shear before crack formation. Shear after crack formation. Strut and tie model. Interaction of internal forces.
12. Serviceability limit state. Limitation of stress. Limitation of cracks. Limitation of deflection.
13. Analysis of anchoring zone, zone under anchors, anchoring with cohesion.
14. Material characteristics, concrete, grouting mortar, reinforcing and prestressing reinforcement.

E-learning

LMS Moodle 221-0302/02 Prestressed concrete

Literature

- EN 1992-1-1 Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures - part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings, CEN 2004.
- Navrátil, J.: Prestressed concrete structures. VŠB TU Ostrava, 2014.

Advised literature

- EN 1992-2 Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures - part 2: Concrete bridges - design and detaining rules.
- Collins, M. P., and Mitchell, D. Prestressed Concrete Structures, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1991.
- Lin, T. Y., and Burns, N. H. Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982.
- Prab Bhat: Prestressed concrete design to Eurocodes, Spon Press 2011.