4.00 credits
20.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Cap Jean-François;
Language
French
Content
- History of prestressed concrete
- Principles of prestress
- Field of application of prestressed concrete
- Properties of steels
- Prestressed systems
- Loads equivalent to prestress
- Load balancing and deformation compensation
- Calculation of the prestress force
- Calculation of stresses (Elastic field)
- ULS design of bended beams
- Shear strength of prestressed sections
- Prestress losses
- Pre-design of prestressed elements
- Localized efforts: end zones of prestressed beams
Teaching methods
Ex-cathedra lectures with Powerpoint slides.
Workshops and exercices
Workshops and exercices
Evaluation methods
The evaluation has two parts:
- Open-book written examination with practical exercises related to the design of simple reinforced concrete structures (4h).
- Oral exam with 'closed book' related to the theoretical concepts of the course.
Online resources
Available on Moodle : Powerpoint slides, Exercices.
Bibliography
- Transparents du cours (syllabus) et formulaire EN 1992-1-1+ ANB ;
- Norme NBN EN 1992-1-1 - Eurocode 2 : Calcul des structures en béton - Partie 1-1 : Règles générales et règles pour les bâtiments
- René Walther, Manfred Miehlbradt.Dimensionnement des structures en béton - Traité de Génie Civil Volume 7 . Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
- R. Favre, J.-P. Jaccoud, O. Burdet, H. Charif. Dimensionnement des structures en béton - Traité de Génie Civil Volume 8 . Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Faculty or entity
GC
