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Pretensioning Details
Setting Description
Girder
view Setting Description
Transversal/Longitudinal These two options will allow the user to visualize
the strand arrangement and geometry in the
current selected girder. By switching between
these two, the section of the girder and the lateral
view of the girder are updated in the drawing
above and will facilitate an easier strand input.
Transversal view is composed from two sections
ENDS and MID which indicates the strand layers at
mid span and begin/end of span.

Strand Here we manually input strand pattern for the currently selected girder and direct
groups changes can be observed in the dynamic drawing above. New strand groups can be
table added or deleted by using the two buttons below the table, respectively: Add
group/Delete group, each group is added with a 5cm vertical length increment
from the girder bottom surface or the last strand group.

Setting Description
Type The type of pattern for the strands, either draped or straight
selection can be made.
No. of The number of defined strands in a group.
Strands
Diameter Indicates the diameter of an individual prestressing strand in
the respective group, diameter variation can be observed in
transversal view.
Spacing Defines equal distances between each strand situated in the
same group.
Offset For a better strand modeling the user has the possibility to
insert an offset that is either positive or negative to the red
reference point (origin) indicated in the drawing. This offset
will move the entire strand group with the respective value
onto the left/right side of the origin point and will allow
together with number of strands and Spacing option to have
the desired Strand Pattern at the same height.
Height Defines the vertical position of a strand group at the beam
(Begin/end) ends. The value is measured from the bottom of the girder.
Height (mid) Defines the vertical position of the strand group at mid span.
The value is measured from the bottom of the girder. It is only
available if the type is set to Draped and is usually lower than
the height at the ends.

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Setting Description
Setting Description
Initial For each group, you may define/change the initial stressing of
stressing strands.

Deflection
point x/L Setting Description
Left/right Horizontal position of deflection points for deflected strand, if
draped strand type is selected. For example, 0.3 corresponds to
0.3 times the girder length. Symmetric draping requires that x/L of
the right point is 1.0 minus x/L­left (default setting). Allowed
range: 0.15 to 0.45 for left point and 0.55 to 0.85 for right point.

Sleeve
length Setting Description
Left/right Offers the possibility to input the Sleeve lengths at each girder
end. These are end parts of the strands where bound is prohibited
(e.g. by grease or duct) in order to avoid surface cracks due to
stressing forces.

Strand RM wizards allow you to save and re­use the strand pattern across different girders,
Pattern by adding a name in Pattern name field on the right side of the Pretensioning
library details window. The basic functionality supported here is that the user can save a
strand pattern specified in the grid beside into a strand pattern library, and re­use
the pattern in a different file for the same girder ID. Simply type a name for the
strand pattern and click OK button to save the current strand pattern to the strand
pattern library file. This saved strand pattern will now be available in the list box,
and you simply need to load it to begin using this pattern in the Strand dialog box.

Parent topic: Superstructure Page

Parent topic: Superstructure Page

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