1) Prestressing involves applying internal stresses that counteract stresses from service loads. It squeezes materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity.
2) The steps of prestressing include tensioning steel strands in a beam form to a high stress before the concrete is poured. After the concrete gains strength, the strands are cut, compressing the beam and creating a negative bending moment to counteract positive moments from loads.
3) This document describes prestressing as squeezing materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity and discusses the steps of prestressing including tensioning strands before pouring concrete and cutting the strands afterwards to compress the beam.
1) Prestressing involves applying internal stresses that counteract stresses from service loads. It squeezes materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity.
2) The steps of prestressing include tensioning steel strands in a beam form to a high stress before the concrete is poured. After the concrete gains strength, the strands are cut, compressing the beam and creating a negative bending moment to counteract positive moments from loads.
3) This document describes prestressing as squeezing materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity and discusses the steps of prestressing including tensioning strands before pouring concrete and cutting the strands afterwards to compress the beam.
1) Prestressing involves applying internal stresses that counteract stresses from service loads. It squeezes materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity.
2) The steps of prestressing include tensioning steel strands in a beam form to a high stress before the concrete is poured. After the concrete gains strength, the strands are cut, compressing the beam and creating a negative bending moment to counteract positive moments from loads.
3) This document describes prestressing as squeezing materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity and discusses the steps of prestressing including tensioning strands before pouring concrete and cutting the strands afterwards to compress the beam.
1) Prestressing involves applying internal stresses that counteract stresses from service loads. It squeezes materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity.
2) The steps of prestressing include tensioning steel strands in a beam form to a high stress before the concrete is poured. After the concrete gains strength, the strands are cut, compressing the beam and creating a negative bending moment to counteract positive moments from loads.
3) This document describes prestressing as squeezing materials like books or concrete beams to improve load capacity and discusses the steps of prestressing including tensioning strands before pouring concrete and cutting the strands afterwards to compress the beam.
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STEPS IN PRESTRESSING
Prestressing can be dened as the imposition of internal stresses
into a structure that are of opposite character to those that will be cause by the service or working loads. A common method used to describe prestressing as shown in Figure, where a row of books has been squeeze together by a persons hands. The resulting beam can carry a downward load as long as the compressive stress from squeezing at the bottom of the beam is greater than the tensile stress there from the moment produced by the weight of the books and the superimposed loads. Such a beam has no tensile strength and, thus, no moment resistance until it is squeeze together or prestressed.
PRESTRESSING
SEQUENCE SHOWING EFFECT OF PRESTRESSING FORCE AT
DIFFERENT STAGES.
STEPS IN PRESTRESSING
It is assumed that the following steps have been taken:
1. Steel strands (represented by the dashed lines) were placed in the lower part of the beam form. 2. The strands were tensioned to a very high stress. 3. The concrete was placed in the form and allowed to gain sufcient strength for the prestressed strands to be cut. 4. The strands were cut.
The cut strands tend to resume their original length, thus
compressing the lower part of the beam and causing a negative bending moment. The positive moment caused by the beam weight and any superimposed gravity loads is directly opposed by the negative moment. Another way of explaining this is to say that a compression stress has been produced in the bottom of the beam opposite in character to the tensile stress that is caused there by the working loads.
