INS 458 - Prestressed Concrete

Course Objectives

1. To determine the internal forces needed for design of pre-stressed concrete structural elements

Course Description

Materials, Prestressing techniques, Behaviour of prestressed statically determinate beams in bending and bending with axial force, Essentials of providing safety, Losses of prestress, Controls of statically determinate beams in bending, Effect of slenderness, Providing safety under shear, Providing anchorage bond, Design of statically indeterminate beams, Slabs.