Concrete Structures
Stresses and Deformations: Analysis and Design for Sustainability, Fourth Edition
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Concrete Structures
Stresses and Deformations: Analysis and Design for Sustainability, Fourth Edition
About this book
This text presents the most effective analysis for predicting the true stresses and deflections of concrete structures, accounting for creep and shrinkage of concrete and relaxation of prestressed reinforcement. Sustainability has become a major requirement in modern structures, which need to sustain satisfactory service over a longer life. It is not rare to specify a life span of 100 years for infrastructure such as bridges. This complete and wide-ranging study of stresses and deformations of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures focuses on design methods for avoiding the deflections and cracking that diminish serviceability.
This fourth edition has a new emphasis on designing for serviceability. It has been comprehensively updated. It now includes 65 solved examples and more than 45 instructive problems with answers given at the end of the book. An accompanying website contains design calculation programs, which allow interactive data input. Independent of codes of practice, the book is universally applicable, and is especially suitable for practising engineers and graduate students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- The SI system of units and Imperial equivalents
- Notation
- 1 Creep and shrinkage of concrete and relaxation of steel
- 2 Stress and strain of uncracked sections
- 3 Special cases of uncracked sections and calculation of displacements
- 4 Time-dependent internal forces in uncracked structures: analysis by the force method
- 5 Time-dependent internal forces in uncracked structures: analysis by the displacement method
- 6 Analysis of time-dependent internal forces with conventional computer programs
- 7 Stress and strain of cracked sections
- 8 Displacements of cracked members
- 9 Simplified prediction of deflections
- 10 Effects of temperature
- 11 Control of cracking
- 12 Design for serviceability of prestressed concrete
- 13 Non-linear analysis of plane frames
- 14 Serviceability of members reinforced with fibre-reinforced polymers
- Appendix A: Time functions for modulus of elasticity, creep, shrinkage and aging coefficient of concrete
- Appendix B: Relaxation reduction coefficient χr
- Appendix C: Elongation, end rotations and central deflection of a member of a plane frame in terms of axial strains and curvatures at a number of sections
- Appendix D: Depth of compression zone in a fully cracked T section
- Appendix E: Crack width and crack spacing
- Appendix F: Values of curvature coefficients κs, κφ and κcs
- Appendix G: Description of computer programs provided at www.sponpress.com/concretestructures
- Appendix H: Problems and answers
- Index