a.

Anchor Set
Retracts pulling the wedges in to the anchorage device and locks the strand in place. The lost
in elongation is small, it depend on the wedges, the jack and the jacking procedure. This lost in
elongation is resisted by friction just as the initial elongation is resisted by friction.
Exact calculation is typical done as an iterative process as follows
1. Calculated loss of pre stress per length with assuming a linear variation in pre stress at
start to end of tendon