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STRUCTURE
UNIT I
• Basic concepts
• Advantages
• Materials required
• Systems and methods of prestressing
• Analysis of sections
• Stress concept
• Strength concept
• Load balancing concept
• Effect of loading on the tensile stresses in tendons
• Effect of tendon profile on deflections
• Factors influencing deflections
• Calculation of deflections
• Short term and
• long term deflections
Basic Concept
• A prestressed concrete structure is different from a
conventional reinforced concrete structure due to the
application of an initial load on the structure prior to its
use.
Wooden
Wooden stave as a free body
Staves
Tensile
prestress
Metal Radial
bands Pressure
A wooden Barrel Half of metal band as a free body
Wires
Prestressing wire is a single unit made of
steel.
Strands
Two, three or seven wires are wound to
form a prestressing strand.
Tendon
A group of strands or wires are wound to
form a prestressing tendon.
Cable
A group of tendons form a prestressing
cable.
Bars
A tendon can be made up of a single steel
bar. The diameter of a bar is much larger
than that of a wire.
Nature of Concrete-Steel Interface
Bonded tendon
• When there is adequate bond between the
prestressing tendon and concrete, it is
called a bonded tendon.
• Pre-tensioned and grouted post-tensioned
tendons are bonded tendons.
Unbonded tendon
• When there is no bond between the
prestressing tendon and concrete, it
is called unbonded tendon.
• When grout is not applied after post-
tensioning, the tendon is an
unbonded tendon.
Stages of Loading
The analysis of prestressed members can
be different for the different stages of
loading. The stages of loading are as
follows.
1) Initial : It can be subdivided into two
stages.
a) During tensioning of steel
b) At transfer of prestress to concrete.
2) Intermediate : This includes the
loads during transportation of the
prestressed members.
3) Final : It can be subdivided into two
stages.
a) At service, during operation.
b)At ultimate, during extreme events.
Advantages of Prestressing
Anchorage
• A device generally used to enable the
tendon to impart and maintain prestress in
the concrete.
• The commonly used anchorages are the
Freyssinet, Magnel Blaton, Gifford-Udall,
Leonhardt-Baur, LeeMcCall, Dywidag,
Roebling and B.B.R.V. systems.
Concordant Prestressing
• Prestressing of members in which the
cables follow a concordant profile.
• In the case of statically indeterminate
structures, concordant prestressing does
not cause any change in the support
reactions.
Non-distortional prestressing
• In this type, the combined effect of the
degree of prestress and the dead-weight
stresses is such that the deflection of the
axis of the member is prevented.
• In such cases, the moments due to
prestress and dead-weight exactly
balance resulting only in an axial force in
the member.
Eccentric Prestressing
• A section at which the tendons are
eccentric to the centroid, resulting in a
triangular or trapezoidal compressive
stress distribution.
Transfer
• The stage corresponding to the transfer of
prestress to concrete.
• For pretensioned members, transfer takes
place at the release of prestress from the
bulk-heads.
• For post-tensioned members, it takes place
after the completion of the tensioning
process.
Supplementary or untensioned reinforcement
• Reinforcement in prestressed members not
tensioned with respect to the surrounding
concrete before the application of loads.
• These are generally used in partially
prestressed members.
Transmission Length
• The length of the bond anchorage of the
prestressing wire from the end of a pre-
tensioned member to the point of full steel
stress.
Cracking load
• The load on the structural element
corresponding to the first visible crack.
Creep in concrete
• Progressive increase in the inelastic
deformation of concrete under sustained
stress component.
Shrinkage of concrete
• Contraction of concrete on drying.
Relaxation in steel
• Decrease of stress in steel at constant strain
Proof stress
• The tensile stress in steel which produces a
residual strain of 0.2 percent of the original
gauge length on unloading.
Creep coefficient
• The ratio of the total creep strain to elastic
strain in concrete.
Cap cable
• A short curved tendon arranged at the
interior supports of a continuous beam.
• The anchors are in the compression zone,
while the curved portion is in the tensile
zone.
Degree of prestressing
• A measure of the magnitude of the
prestressing force related to the resultant
stress ocurring in the structural member at
working load.
Debonding
• Prevention of bond between the steel wire
and the surrounding concrete.
Materials Required
High Strength Concrete
• Prestressed concrete requires concrete
which has a high compressive strength at a
reasonably early age, with comparatively
higher tensile strength than ordinary
concrete.
• Low shrinkage, minimum creep
characteristics and a high value of Young’s
modulus are generally deemed necessary
for concrete used for prestressed members.
• Many desirable properties, such as
durability, impermeability and abrasion
resistance are highly influenced by the
strength of concrete.
• The minimum 28-day cube compressive
strength prescribed in the IS: 1343-1980 is
40N/mm2 for pre-tensioned members and
30N/mm2 for post-tensioned members.
• According to IS:1343-1980,
• The compressive stress varies linearly
from 0.54 to 0.37 fc
f
ior
p
os
t
t
en
s
i
on
e
d
work and from 0.51 to 0.44 fc
f
ior
p
r
e-
tensioned work depending on the
strength of concrete. (fc
C
iom
p
r
e
s
si
v
e
strength of concrete at initial transfer of
prestress )
At transfer, there is no tensile stress
•
• At service load, the compressive stress
varies linearly from 0.41 to 0.35 f
c
k
• Introduction
• Stages of Post-tensioning
• Advantages of Post-tensioning
• Disadvantages of Post-tensioning
• Devices
• Manufacturing of a Post-tensioned Bridge
Girder
Stages of Post-tensioning
• In post-tensioning systems, the ducts for
the tendons (or strands) are placed along
with the reinforcement before the casting
of concrete.
• The tendons are placed in the ducts after
the casting of concrete.
• The duct prevents contact between
concrete and the tendons during the
tensioning operation.
• Unlike pre-tensioning, the tendons are
pulled with the reaction acting against
the hardened concrete.
• If the ducts are filled with grout, then it is
known as bonded post-tensioning.
• The grout is a neat cement paste or a
sand-cement mortar containing suitable
admixture.
• In unbounded post-tensioning, as the name
suggests, the ducts are never grouted and
the tendon is held in tension solely by the
end anchorages.
• The following sketch shows a schematic
representation of a grouted post-tensioned
member.
• The profile of the duct depends on the
support conditions.
• For a simply supported member, the duct
has a sagging profile between the ends.
• For a continuous member, the duct sags in
the span and hogs over the support.
Post-tensioning
• Among the following figures, the first
photograph shows the placement of ducts
in a box girder of a simply supported bridge.
• The second photograph shows the end of
the box girder after the post-tensioning of
some tendons.
Post-tensioning ducts in a box girder
Post-tensioning of a box girder
The various stages of the post-tensioning
operation are summarised as follows.
1) Casting of concrete.
2) Placement of the tendons.
3) Placement of the anchorage block
and jack.
4) Applying tension to the tendons.
5) Seating of the wedges.
6) Cutting of the tendons.
• The stages are shown schematically in the
following figures.
• After anchoring a tendon at one end, the
tension is applied at the other end by a jack.
• The tensioning of tendons and pre-
compression of concrete occur
simultaneously.
• A system of self-equilibrating forces
develops after the stretching of the tendons.
Advantages of Post-tensioning
The relative advantages of post-tensioning as
compared to pre-tensioning are as follows.
• Post-tensioning is suitable for heavy cast-in-
place members.
• The waiting period in the casting bed is less.
• The transfer of prestress is independent of
transmission length.
Disadvantage of Post-tensioning
• The relative disadvantage of post-
tensioning as compared to pre-tensioning
is the requirement of anchorage device and
grouting equipment.
Devices
The essential devices for post-tensioning are
as follows.
1) Casting bed
2) Mould/Shuttering
3) Ducts
4) Anchoring devices
5) Jacks
6) Couplers (optional)
7) Grouting equipment (optional).
Anchoring Devices
• In post-tensioned members the anchoring
devices transfer the prestress to the concrete.
• The devices are based on the following
principles of anchoring the tendons.
1) Wedge action
2) Direct bearing
3) Looping the wires
Wedge action
• The anchoring device based on wedge action
consists of an anchorage block and wedges.
• The strands are held by frictional grip of the
wedges in the anchorage block.
• Some examples of systems based on the
wedge-action are Freyssinet, Gifford-Udall,
Anderson and Magnel-Blaton anchorages.
• The following figures show some patented
anchoring devices.
Freyssinet “T” system
anchorage cones
Direct bearing
• The rivet or bolt heads or button heads
formed at the end of the wires directly bear
against a block.
• The B.B.R.V post-tensioning system and the
Prescon system are based on this principle.
• The following figure shows the anchoring by
direct bearing.
Anchoring with button heads
Looping the wires
• The Baur-Leonhardt system, Leoba system
and also the Dywidag single-bar anchorage
system, work on this principle where the
wires are looped around the concrete.
• The wires are looped to make a bulb.
• The following photo shows the anchorage by
looping of the wires in a post-tensioned slab.
Anchorage by looping the wires in a slab
Sequence of Anchoring
• The following figures show the sequence of
stressing and anchoring the strands.
• The photo of an anchoring device is also
provided.
Couplers
• The couplers are used to connect strands or
bars.
• They are located at the junction of the
members, for example at or near columns in
post-tensioned slabs, on piers in post-
tensioned bridge decks.
• The couplers are tested to transmit the full
capacity of the strands or bars.
• A few types of couplers are shown in the
figure below.
Grouting
• Grouting can be defined as the filling of
duct, with a material that provides an anti-
corrosive alkaline environment to the
prestressing steel and also a strong bond
between the tendon and the surrounding
grout.
• The major part of grout comprises of water
and cement, with a water-to-cement ratio of
about 0.5, together with some water-reducing
admixtures, expansion agent and pozzolans.
Basic Assumptions
• The analysis of stresses developed in a
prestressed concrete structural element is
based on the following assumptions:
• Concrete is a homogeneous elastic
material
• Within the range of working stresses, both
concrete and steel behave elastically,
notwithstanding the small amount of
creep which occurs in both the materials
under sustained loading, and
• A plane section before bending is
assumed to remain plane even after
bending, which implies a linear strain
distribution across the depth of the
member.
Analysis of prestress
• The stresses due to prestressing alone are
generally combined stresses due to the
action of direct load and bending resulting
from an eccentrically applied load.
• The stresses in concrete are evaluated by
using the well known relationship for
combined stresses used in the case of
columns.
The following notations and sign conventions are
used for the analysis of prestress:
P = Prestressing force
e = eccentricity of prestressing force
M = P . e = Moment
A = cross-sectional area of the concrete
member
I = second moment of area of section about
its centroid.
Zt
and
Z
=
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t
i
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d
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l
u
so
ft
h
et
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p
and bottom fibres
fs
u
pand fi
n
f= pr
e st
res s
i
n
co
nc
r
e
t
e
developed at the top and bottom fibres
(positive when compressive and
negative when tensile in nature)
ytand yb =d i
st
a nce ofth etop an d
bottom fibres from the centroid of the
section
i = radius of gyration
Concentric Tendon
• Consider a concrete beam with a concentric
tendon as shown in the figure
P P
Stress = P/A
Introduction
• In prestressed concrete applications, the
most important variable is the prestressing
force.
e
=
E/
E
s
c
= 210/35 =6
Initial stress in steel = 150 x 103 / 188
= 800 N/mm2
Stress in concrete, fc = (150 x 103 /3 x10
)
4+
((150 x 103 x 50 x50)/225x106)
= 6.66 N/mm2
Loss of stress due to elastic deformation of
concrete = e x fc
= 6 x 6.66 = 40N/mm2
Percentage loss of stress in steel
=(40 / 800)x 100
= 5%
Loss due to shrinkage of concrete
• The shrinkage of concrete in prestressed
members results in a shortening of
tensioned wires and hence contributes to
the loss of stress.
• The shrinkage of concrete is influenced by
the type of cement and aggregates and the
method of curing used.
• Use of high-strength concrete with low
water cement ratios results in a reduction
in shrinkage and consequent loss of
prestress.
• The primary cause of drying shrinkage is the
progressive loss of water from concrete.
• The rate of shrinkage is higher at the surface
of the members.
• The differential shrinkage between the interior
and surface of large members may result in
strain gradients leading to surface cracking.
• Hence, proper curing is essential to prevent
shrinkage cracks in prestressed members.
• As per IS 1343-1980, the loss of prestress due to
the shrinkage of concrete is
Loss due creep of concrete
• The sustained prestress in the concrete of
a prestressed member results in creep of
concrete which effectively reduces the
stress in high-tensile steel.
• The loss of stress in steel due to creep of
concrete can be estimated if the
magnitude of ultimate creep strain or
creep coefficient is known.
Hence, loss of stress in steel
= c x Es
= (fc
/
E
c)
XE
=
s
.
f
c.
(
E/
sE
)
c
=
• The magnitude of the creep coefficient, ,
varies depending upon the humidity,
concrete quality, duration of applied loading
and the age of the concrete when loaded.
15.33
=131.99N/mm2
15.33
=147.168N/
mm2
Loss due to Relaxation of stress in steel
E=
s mo d ulus ofelasti
c it
y ofsteel,N /
mm 2
2
with their centroids located 100mm from the soffit. Find the
maximum stress in concrete immediately after transfer, allowing only
for elastic shortening of concrete.
If the concrete undergoes a further shortening due to creep and
shrinkage while there is a relaxation of 5 percent of steel stress,
estimate the final percentage loss of stress in the wires using the
Indian standard code (IS: 1343-1980) regulations, and the following
data:
Ac
=
20
0X
3
0
0
=6
x
1
04
m
m2
Ec
=
57
00
(
4
2
)1
/
2=
3
69
4
0
N
/2
m
m
(428 x 10 x 50)50/45 x 10 ))
3 7
= 9.78 N/mm 2
Creep of concrete = ø x f x α c e
Shrinkage of concrete = Ɛ x E c
s s
= 3 x 10 x 210 x 10
-4 3
= 63 N/mm 2
2
constant eccentricity of 50 mm and
carrying an initial stress of 1000 N/mm.
2
The span of the beam is 10m. Calculate the percentage loss of stress in wires
if (a) the beam is pre-tensioned and (b) the beam is post-tensioned, using the
following data:
E=
2
1
0
kN
/
m
ma
n
dE
=
3
5k
N
/
m
m;
s
2
c
2
relaxation of stress in steel = 5 percent of the initial stress; shrinkage of
concrete =
300 x 10 for pretensioning and 200 x
-6
10 for post tensioning; creep coefficient
-6
= 1.6; slip at anchorage = 1 mm; frictional coefficient for wave effect = 0.0015
per m.
42.00
Deflections of Prestressed Concrete Members
1
at the centre of the span and e
2
at the support sections.
The resultant deflection at the centre is obtained as the sum
of the upward deflection of a beam with a parabolic tendon
of eccentricity (e +e )atthe
1
2
centre and zero at the supports and the downward deflection
of a beam subjected to a uniform sagging bending moment
of
intensity pe thro ugh outthe
2
length.
Consequently, the resultant deflection becomes,
Sloping tendons (eccentric tendons):
From the figure below, the deflection is calculated as
Parabolic and straight tendons: the deflection
at the centre of the beam is obtained as,
Parabolic and straight tendons (eccentric
anchors): the maximum central deflection is
obtained by superposition,
Deflections due to self-weight and imposed
loads
2
each, Initially stressed to 1600 N/mm.
2
The cables are located at a constant eccentricity of 100 mm throughout
the length of the beam having a span of 10 m. The modulus of elasticity
of steel
and concrete is 210 and 38 kN/mm
2
respectively.
(a) Neglecting all losses, find the deflection at the centre of span when it
is supporting its own weight.
(b) Allowing for 20 percent loss in prestress, find the final deflection at
the centre of span when it carries an imposed load of 18 kN/m. Dc = 24
kN/
m.
3
Prediction of Long Time Deflection
• The deformations of prestressed members change with
time as a result of creep and shrinkage of concrete and
relaxation of stress in steel.
• The prestressed concrete member develops deformations
under the influence of two usually opposing effects, which
are the prestress and transverse loads.
• The net curvature øt at a s
e c t
i
o
n atany g
i
ven stage i s
obtained as
• Under the section of sustained transverse loads, the
compressive stress distribution in the concrete changes
with time.
• However, in practical cases, the change of stress being
small, it may be assumed that the concrete creeps under
constant stress.
• The creep strain due to transverse loads is directly
computed as a function of the creep coefficient so that
the change of curvature can be estimated by the
expression,
• The change of curvature due to the sustained
prestress (øp
)
d
t epend su pon the cum ul
ative
effects of creep and shrinkage of concrete and
relaxation of stress in steel.
• According to Neville and ACI committee report,
the creep curvature due to prestress is obtained
on the simplified assumption that creep is
induced by the average prestress acting over the
given time. Using this approach, if
Pi =in i
ti
a lp r
es tr
es s
Pt
=pr
e
s
tr
e
s
sa
f
t
er
a
ti
m
e,
t
• Loss of prestressing force due to relaxation,
shrinkage and creep, Lp
=
(P
-
P
it)
e = eccentricity of the prestressing force at
the section
EI = flexural rigidity
• The curvature due to prestress after time t can
be expressed as
If a =
i
1 ini
tia ldeflect i
ond ue t
o t r
a
n sve r
s e
loads
ai
p= i
n i
ti
al defl e
c t
io ndue to pr
e s
tres s
• Then, the total long time deflection after time t
is obtained from the expression,