Contenido Prestressed Concrete Designer's Handbook

The third edition of this authoritative handbook provides the structural designer with comprehensive guidance on prestressed concrete and its effective use, covering materials, behaviour, analysis and design of prestressed elements. It includes numerous examples, design charts and details of post-tensioning systems.

Contents

Prefaces.
Notation.
Introduction.
Materials.
Behaviour of prestressed concrete beams.
Types of prestressing steel.
Criteria for analysis and design.
Losses of prestressing force.
Analysis of stresses.
Flexural design of prestressed members.
Examples of flexural design.
End blocks.
Composite members.
Deflection.
Other design considerations.
Statically-indeterminate structures.
Applications of prestressing.
Design for fire resistance.
Specification.
Appendix:
design philosophy.
Design data and charts.