Prestressed Concrete Structures detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Civil Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of prestressed concrete structures is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION – THEORY AND BEHAVIOUR 9 Basic principles of prestressing – Classification and types – Advantages over ordinary reinforced concrete – Materials – High strength concrete and high tensile steel – Methods of prestressing -Freyssinet, Magnel, Lee-McCall and Gifford Udall anchorage systems – Analysis of sections of stresses by stress concept, strength concept and load balancing concept – Losses of prestress in post -tensioned and pre-tensioned members.
Unit II
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Unit III
DEFLECTION AND DESIGN OF ANCHORAGE ZONE 9 Factors influencing deflections – Short-term deflections of uncracked members – Prediction of longterm deflections due to creep and shrinkage – Check for serviceability limit states. Determination of anchorage zone stresses in post-tensioned beams by Magnels method, Guyons method and I.S. 1343 code – design of anchorage zone reinforcement – Check for transfer bond length in pretensioned beams- design of anchorage zone reinforcement – Check for transfer bond length in pretensioned beams.
Unit IV
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Unit V
MISCELANEOUS STRUCTURES 9 Role of prestressing in members subjected to Tensile forces and compressive forces – Design of Tension members and Compression members – Design of Tanks, Pipes, Sleepers and Poles -Partial prestressing – methods of achieving partial prestressing, merits and demerits of partial prestressing.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Krishna Raju N., “Prestressed concrete”, 5th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Company, New Delhi, 2012
- Pandit.G.S. and Gupta. S.P., “Prestressed Concrete”, CBS Publishers and Distributers Pvt. Ltd, 2014
Reference Books:
- Lin T.Y. and Ned.H.Burns, “Design of prestressed Concrete Structures”, Third Edition, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2013.
- Rajagopalan.N, “Prestressed Concrete”, Narosa Publishing House, 2017.
- Dayaratnam.P., “Prestressed Concrete Structures”, Oxford and IBH, 2017
- Sinha.N.C. And Roy.S.K. Fundamentals of Prestressed Concrete, S.Chand and Co. Ltd., 2011
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