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CIV_ENV 421-0: Prestressed Concrete Design


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Prerequisites

Graduate Standing, Senior Undergrad or Permission of Instructor

Description

Description: Principles of prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems, end anchorage, and loss of prestress. Analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear, bond, bearing, and deflection. Continuous beams, slab, tension, and compression members. Circular prestressing.

Course Objective:  The objective of this course is to introduce graduate and senior undergraduate students to theory and applications of prestressed concrete. Students will build on the knowledge gained through all mechanics related courses of the undergraduate curriculum (statics, mechanics of materials, concrete design, etc.).

Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, students will have an advanced understanding of the behavior of prestressed concrete structures as well as knowledge of design specifications currently used in practice. In addition, students will have the necessary skills to analyze, and design prestressed concrete structures and will be able to:

  1. Describe typical prestressing systems.
  2. Describe the mechanical behavior of typical concrete and steel used in prestressed concrete construction.
  3. Calculate prestress losses.
  4. Analyze and design prestressed concrete members in bending under service loads.
  5. Analyze and design prestressed concrete members in bending under ultimate loads.
  6. Compute shear and torsional strength of prestressed concrete members.
  7. Solve statically indeterminate prestressed concrete structures.
  8. Compute camber and deflection of prestressed concrete members.

Reference Textbooks

  1. Prestressed Concrete – A Fundamental Approach. Fifth Edition." by E. G. Nawy. Prentice Hall Edition.
  2. Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures, T.Y. Lin and Ned Burns
  3. Creep and Shrinkage: Their effect on the behavior of concrete structures” by H. Rusch, D. Junwirth and H. Hilsdorf
  4. Philosophy of Structures by E. Torroja

 

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