Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2019 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 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 7th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of design of prestressed concrete structures is as follows.
Course Objective:
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Unit I
Introduction
Historical developments – 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
Factors influencing deflections – Short term deflections of uncracked members – Prediction of long term deflections due to creep and shrinkage – Check for serviceability limit state of deflection. Determination of anchorage zone stresses in post-tensioned beams by Magnel”s method, Guyon”s method and I.S. 1343 code – design of anchorage zone reinforcement – Check for transfer bond length in pre-tensioned beams.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Miscelaneous Structures
Design of tension and compression members – Design of sleepers, pipes and poles – Partial prestressing – Definition, methods of achieving partial prestressing, merits and demerits of partial prestressing.
Course Outcome:
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Text Books:
- Krishna Raju N., Prestressed concrete, Tata McGraw Hill Company, fifth edition, 2012.
- Pandit.G.S. And Gupta.S.P. Prestressed Concrete, CBS Publishers and Distributers Pvt. Ltd., Second edition, 2014.
References:
- Lin T.Y. and Ned.H.Burns, Design of prestressed Concrete Structures, John Wiley and Sons, Third Edition, 1981.
- Rajagopalan.N, Prestressed Concrete, Narosa Publishing House, 2002.
- Dayaratnam.P., Sarah P, Prestressed Concrete Structures, Seventh Edition, 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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