
- 638 pages
- English
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Precast Prestressed Concrete for Building Structures
About this book
This guide to precast prestressed concrete (PSC) introduces and applies principles for the design of PSC slabs, thermal slabs, beam and block flooring and main beams, including (where appropriate) cantilevers, and composite and continuous construction.
The book provides numerous worked examples for a wide range of PSC elements and covers the innovative use of PSC on several projects in the UK over the past ten years, drawing on the authors' first-hand experience in the design and manufacture of special products. The contents are in line with latest revisions of the Eurocodes and European Product Standards.
Precast Prestressed Concrete for Building Structures is ideal for consulting structural engineers, clients, PSC manufacturers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, both as a guide and a textbook.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Seamus McKeague
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Notation
- 1 Commercial use of precast and prestressed concrete in buildings
- 2 Why precast, why prestressed?
- 3 Basis for the design of prestressed concrete elements
- 4 Pretensioning and casting methods
- 5 Materials, durability and fire resistance
- 6 Prestressing and detensioning stresses
- 7 Flexural design in service
- 8 Design for bending moments using the Magnel diagrams
- 9 Ultimate bending strength
- 10 Ultimate shear strength and torsion, and transmission length
- 11 Serviceability limit state for deflections and cracking
- 12 Composite slabs and beams
- 13 Cantilevers and continuous slabs and beams
- 14 Precast prestressed concrete walls
- 15 Off-site benefits and temporary works
- 16 Case studies
- Index