Design of Precast Parts with

Prestressed Concrete in RFEM

With the external add-on modules RF-
TENDON and RF-TENDON Design you
can design prestressed concrete
members with pretensioning as well

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as bonded post-tensioned concrete
according to EN 1992-1-1 (concrete
constructions) and EN 1992-2 (con-
crete bridges). In particular the option
used to consider pre-tensioned con-
crete facilitates the design of precast
parts made of prestressed concrete.

Calculation of Precast Floors

Consisting of Prestressed Con-
crete
It is also possible to design prefabri-
cated floors with prestressed con-
crete. The floors consist of composed, Cross-section and internal forces of a precast floor using prestressed concrete repre-
sented in RFEM
uniaxially tensioned non-solid (hol-
low core) slabs with a width of ap- ability limit states were finally per- ate loss of prestressing stress due to
prox. 1.20 m. In the precast concrete formed with RF-TENDON Design. friction, anchorage set, relaxation,
plant the elements are pre-stressed elastic deformation of concrete, etc.
with pretensioning. The fabrication is Features in RF-TENDON and RF- The design for axial force, biaxial
usually done with slipformers. Be- TENDON Design bending, shear, torsion and com-
cause of the lower self-weight of the bined internal forces is carried out in
core slab floor and the existing pre- Both add-on modules used for pre-
stressed concrete design provide a RF-TENDON Design. The ultimate and
stress the precast floors have a lower serviceability limit state designs are
deflection than non-prestressed variety of useful functions. In addition
to a linear layout for prestressing performed for the relevant design
floors consisting of solid slabs. situations.
steel, it is also possible to define par-
Verification with Calculation Ex- abolic or polygonal layouts in RF-
More Information and Trial Ver-
ample TENDON. Moreover, you can import
sions
tendons from TXT and DXF files as
The Dlubal company has verified the well as tables. Furthermore, the mod- Dlubal Engineering Software
correctness of results determined by ule is able to take account of immedi- www.dlubal.com
RF-TENDON (Design) with regard to
the design of prestressed concrete
beams using pre-tensioned con-
crete. Among others a design exam-
ple was calculated representing a
prefabricated concrete floor chosen
from the German reference book
"Spannbetonbau-Praxis nach Euro-
code 2 (Beuth Verlag GmbH).
First, the cross-section was modeled
in Dlubal's stand-alone program
SHAPE-MASSIVE. Then, the model
was imported to RFEM. The structur-
al system and loading were entered
in RFEM. The tendon geometry as
well as the parameters required to
apply the prestress were defined in
the module RF-TENDON where pre-
stressing forces and equivalent loads
were calculated automatically. The
designs for the ultimate and service-
Representation of concrete and steel stresses in RF-TENDON Design

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