Title:
Deflection of Cracked Prestressed Concrete Members
Author(s):
Maher K. Tadros and Amin Ghali
Publication:
Symposium Paper
Volume:
86
Issue:
Appears on pages(s):
137-166
Keywords:
beams (supports); cracking (fracturing); creep
properties; deflection; partial prestressing; prestressed
concrete; prestress loss; shrinkage; stress relaxation;
structural design.
DOI:
10.14359/6429
Date:
8/1/1985
Abstract:
A manual calculation procedure is presented for predic-tion of deflection of partially prestressed beams. Adequate accur-acy is achieved by accounting for the important parameters affecting the deflection: creep and shrinkage of concrete, relaxation of pre-stressed steel, cross section areas and locations of prestressed and nonprestressed steel and cracking at the sections where the tensile strength of concrete is exceeded. Design aids are presented to sim-plify calculation of properties of cracked sections. Numerical exam-ples are included.