Prestressed Concrete Structures Course

Understanding and initial ideas about prestressed concrete, how to apply prestressing force to steel (pretensioning & posttensioning), prestressing concrete and steel materials, basic principles of planning and analyzing cross-sections (elastic conditions, steel-concrete cooperation, load balancing), casting and cable pulling processes, loss prestressing forces (shrinkage, creep, relaxation, due to slippage, friction, influence of length), cross-section planning and stress calculations for concrete sections, casting and running cables, shear stresses, hazard diagrams for prestressed concrete, anchorage in posttensioning systems, transverse tensile stresses at the final block of the limit moment. Learning is carried out using the Direct Learning Method (MPL) and ends with discussion activities.