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Prestressed Concrete
FAST-BLA010Acad. year: 2023/2024
Principle of prestressing. Basic concept of pretensioning and post-tensioning. Material properties, manufacturing, types. Pretensioning operations, technology. Post-tensioning operations, technology, prestressing systems.
Losses of prestressing of pretensioned and post-tensioned concrete, tendon profiles.
Equivalent load method, statically determinate and indeterminate structures, examples. Response of structures subjected to prestressing, simplifications, decompression state.
Resistance of prestressed members against cracks. Tensile stresses in the concrete after cracking. Control of crack width and deflection of prestressed members. Ultimate limit state of prestressed members, full stress-strain response, shear resistance.
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Design of prestressed concrete structural members and structural systems, analysis and detailing.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Understanding of the behaviour of prestressed concrete structures.
• Design of prestressed concrete structural members and structural systems, analysis and detailing.
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Basic literature
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav. Prestressed Concrete Structures. Brno: CERM, 2006. ISBN 80-7204-462-1. (EN)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav. Předpjaté betonové konstrukce. Brno: CERM, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7204-561-7. (CS)
Recommended reading
GERWICK, Ben C. Construction of Prestressed Concrete Structures. USA: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. ISBN 978-0-471-18113-2. (EN)
LIN, T. Y. a BURNS, Ned. H. Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. ISBN 0471018988. (EN)
ROMBACH, Günter. Spannbetonbau. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2010. ISBN 978-3-433-02911-4. (DE)
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