A Unified Approach for Serviceability Design of Prestressed and Non prestressed Reinforced Concrete Structures Amin Ghali Professor Department of Civil Engineering The University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada restressing is now widely used i reinforced concrete structures to improve their performance during ser- vice conditions without necessarily eliminating cracking. The total rein- forcement, prestressed and nonpre- stressed, must be sufficient to satisfy re- quirements for ultimate strength. This aspect of the design is relatively simple and is not treated in this paper. The checks for serviceability are more difficult because they involve a deter- mination of stress and strain distribu- tions in a cross section at various loading stages. The analysis must account for the time-dependent effects of creep and shrinkage of concrete and relaxation of prestressed steel which include the ef- fects of cracking when the tensile strength of concrete is exceeded. In this paper one set of equations is presented to determine the changes in stress and strain in concrete sections reinforced with prestressed and nonpre- stressed steels when subjected to nor- mal forces and bending moments. The equations are applicable to statically determinate or indeterminate structures with or without cracking. A part of the tension applied at the jacking end of a post-tensioned tendon is lost by friction and anchor set. It is assumed that the initial tension exclud- ing the loss due to these causes has been determined prior to starting the analysis presented herein. Other prestress losses 118
A Unified Approach for Serviceability Design of Prestressed and Non prestressed Reinforced Concrete Structures
Jul 01, 2023
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