Course 29.

Pre-stressed Concrete Structures (Video Course)

Faculty Coordinator(s) :
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Prof. Devdas Menon

Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036
Email : dmenon@iitm.ernet.in
Telephone : (91-44)

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Prof. Amalan Kumar Sengupta

Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036
Email : amlan@civil.iitm.ernet.in
Telephone : (91-44)

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Detailed Syllabus :

Module 1: Prestressing Systems and Material Properties (4 hours)

Topics
Brief history;
Types of prestressing: pretensioning and post-tensioning, linear and circular
prestressing, external and internal prestressing, full and partial prestressing,
uniaxial and biaxial prestressing.
Advantages and disadvantages of prestressing, advantages of precast members;
prestressing systems: definitions of common terms in prestressing; pretensioning
devices, post-tensioning devices, anchorage devices, transfer of prestress, grouting.
Material properties: aggregates, cement, concrete, allowable stresses, creep,
shrinkage.
Material properties: steel, allowable stresses, relaxation, fatigue.

Module 2: Losses in Prestress (3 hours)

Topics
Immediate losses: elastic shortening.
Friction and anchorage slip, Force flow diagram.
Time dependent losses: creep, shrinkage, relaxation;
IS Code provisions, PCI step -by-step procedure.

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Module 3: Analysis of Members (6 hours)

Topics
Analysis of members under axial load.
Analysis of members under flexure at service loads: stress concept, force concept,
load balancing concept.
Cracking moment, kern point, pressure line, concept of limiting zone.
Analysis of rectangular sections under flexure at ultimate loads: equations of
equilibrium and compatibility and constitutive models, stress block for concrete,
solution procedure, minimum and maximum amount of prestressed reinforcement.
Analysis of flanged sections under flexure at ultimate loads.
Analysis of partially prestressed sections under flexure at ultimate loads.

Module 4: Design of Members for Flexure (7 hours)

Topics
Design based on service loads: preliminary design.
Final design for Type I member (no tensile stress).
Final design for Type II (limited tensile stress) and TYPE III (limited cracking)
members.
Choice of cross section: flexural efficiency;
Determination of limiting zone; Post-tension in stress.
Magnels graphical method.
Design based on ultimate loads.
Detailing requirement.

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Module 5: Analysis and Design for shear and torsion (7 hours)

Topics
Analysis for shear: principal stress trajectories of linear elastic beams, crack
Patters, modes of failure, component of shear resistance.
Capacity for web shear cracking capacity for flexural shear cracking.
Design of shear reinforcement detailing requirements, design steps.
Analysis for torsion behavior of linear elastic beams, crack pattern.
Modes of failure, components of torsion resistance.
Design of torsion reinforcement.
Detailing requirements, design steps.

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Module 6: Calculations for deflection and crack-width (2 hours)

Topics
Calculations for deflection
Calculations for crack-width of Type III members.
Module 7: Design for Transfer of Prestress (2 hours)
Topics
Pretensioned members: Hoyer effect, transmission length, bond length, development
length, transverse tensile stresses, end zone reinforcement.
Post-tensioned members: Bursting force, anchorage zone reinforcement, bearing
stress, design of end block.
Module 8: Cantilever beams and Continuous beams (3 hours)
Topics
Cantilever beams: choice of cable profile, determination of limiting zone.
Continuous beams: advantages and disadvantages, choice of cable profile, analysis for
bending moment.
Principle of linear transformation, principle of concordant cable, determination 1 of
limiting zone

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limiting zone.

Module 9: Special Topics (4 hours)

Topics
Composite construction: analysis and design
Analysis and design of slabs
Analysis and design of members under flexure and axial compression
Circular prestressing: application, analysis and design

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