Reinforced and prestressed concrete structures

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	221-0405/02
Abbreviation	ŽBaPK
Course title	Reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Structures
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Pavlína Matečková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Principles of prestressed concrete, technology. Effect of prestressing on structures.
2. Design of prestressing, changes of prestressing. Action stages of prestressed structure.
3. Ultimate resistance and serviceability limit states
4. Reinforcement design of discontinuity zones. Strut and tie model.
5. Stress field model, interaction of internal forces acting on concrete section.
6. Creep, shrinkage and ageing of concrete, simplified and numerical methods for creep analysis
7. Hybrid structures, effects of prestressing, construction and rheology of concrete on structural behaviour.

Literature

- AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, American Association of State Highway and transport Officials, 2004.
- Bažant, Z. P.: Mathematical Modelling of Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1988.

Advised literature

- COLLINS, M. P., and MITCHELL, D. Prestressed Concrete Structures, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1991.
- Fib Model Code 2010, First complete draft, International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), Lausanne, 2010.
- Lin, T. Y., and Burns, N. H. Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982.
MATA-FALCÓN, J., TRAN, D., T., KAUFMANN, W., NAVRÁTIL, J. Computer-aided stress field analysis of discontinuity concrete regions, In: Proceedings of EURO-C 2018 Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, CRC Press, Austria, 2018, pp. 641-650.
- MENN, C. Prestressed Concrete Bridges, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1990.
- NAVRÁTIL, J. Prestressed Concrete Structures. VŠB – Technical university of Ostrava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2014.
- Schlaich, J., Schafer, K., Jennewein, M.: Towards a Consistent Design of Reinforced Concrete Structure, PCI Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1987.
- Šmerda, Z., Křístek, V.: Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete Elements and Structures, SNTL, Praha, 1988.

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