CE 337/CE 568 : Prestressed

Concrete Design
Prof. Sasankasekhar Mandal
BE (Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, 1993), ME (UOR, Roorkee, 1996), PhD (IIT, Roorkee, 2001)
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT (BHU), Varanasi, UP 221 005
IS 1343 – 2012 specifications on materials
(aggregates)
 Influence of maximum size of aggregate on
compressive strength of concrete, AM Neville (2011)
 Cold working followed by stress relieving
• Cold working: rolling the bars through a series of dies
The high carbon steel ingots are hot rolled into rods and cold drawn through
series of dies to reduce the diameter and increase tensile strength.
Note that this process decreases durability of the wires. So, the cold drawn wires
are subsequently tempered to improve their properties.
Tempering is also known as Ageing/ stress relieving.
• Stress relieving: heating the strand to about 350°C (range 150 – 4200C) and cooling
slowly. Improves plastic deformation of steel and improves the tensile strength.
• Strain tempering for low relaxation: heating the strand to about 350°C while it is
under tension.
• Improves the stress- strain behaviour of steel. Also the relaxation loss is reduced.
 Cold working versus stress relieving
• Cold working: rolling the bars through a series of dyes.
• Stress relieving: heating the strand to about 350°C and cooling slowly.
Improves plastic deformation of steel.
• Strain tempering for low relaxation: heating the strand to about 350°C
while it is under tension.
• Improves the stress- strain behaviour of steel. Also the relaxation loss
is reduced.
Examples of initial super structures
Examples of initial super structures
Evolution of box girder bridges
Typical box girder cross section of a flyover
bridge
Examples of initial super structures
Zuari bridge 807m long Goa
Properties of cold drawn stress relieved wires (IS 1785)
Properties of High tensile indented wire (IS 6003)
Sheathing
Comparative Properties of different types of wire
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Anchorage devices
Anchorage devices
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Pre-tensioned pre-stressed concrete
Post-tensioned pre-stressed concrete
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Sheathing
Sheathing : Corrugated HDPE ducts
Sheathing : Corrugated HDPE ducts
Terminology IS 1343 -2012
Typical diagram of transmission length
Typical diagram of transmission length