THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CEE 9628b Prestressed Concrete (Assignment #2 – Due February 18, 2011)

Dr. Maged A. Youssef, P.Eng. Page: 1/2

If you consider that there is missing information, you are urged to make a reasonable assumption and
submit a clear statement of this assumption.

Problem 1:

Two axially loaded members located in Toronto, Ontario were having the cross-section shown in Fig.
1a and a length of 3000 mm. The first member was a non-prestressed member and contained 4#15 bars
with a yielding strength of 400 MPa. The second member contained only prestressed reinforcement
(4#15 seven-wire strands in flexible metal sheathing) with stress-strain curve shown in Fig. 1b. The
concrete was moist cured for 7 days. Its compressive strength at 7 days and 28 days were 25 MPa and
45 MPa, respectively.

1. Develop an appropriate function to represent the stress-strain behaviour of #15 seven-wire

strands.
2. For the second member: the member was oriented vertically and the strands were stressed to 0.75
fpu from one end directly after moist curing (two tendons are jacked at a time). Δset was equal to 3
mm. Estimate the losses due to elastic shortening of concrete, friction, anchorage slip, and
relaxation of tendons.
3. Ignoring the effect of confinement provided by stirrups, compare the axial load-concrete strain
relationship of the two members at 7 days.
4. Ignoring the effect of confinement provided by stirrups, compare the axial load-maximum crack
width relationship of the two members at 7 days.
5. For member 2, sketch the axial load-concrete strain relationship at 7 days considering
confinement provided by the stirrups. Compare this relationship to the one obtained in step 3.
 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CEE 9628b Prestressed Concrete (Assignment #2 – Due February 18, 2011)

Dr. Maged A. Youssef, P.Eng. Page: 2/2

# 10 stirrups @ 200 mm

250 mm
Cover = 30 mm

250 mm
Fig. 1a Member Cross-Section

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1600
1400
Stress (MPa)

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200
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0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04
Strain (mm/mm)

Fig. 1b Experimental Stress-Strain Curve for Prestressing Tendons