Collapse analysis of externally prestressed structures / Jens Tandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tandler, Jens.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prestressed construction.

Building failures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of external prestressing is becoming more popular throughout Europe due to their expected higher durability and the possibility of active maintenance of the prestressing cables. Questions have been raised about the behaviour of these structures beyond service loads.A comprehensive numerical analysis has been carried out comparing the behaviour of three different types of externally prestressed bridges to a conventionally internally prestressed bridge. The external types are a monolithically built bridge with external tendons, a monolithically built bridge with external tendons and

Contents:

Collapse analysis of externally prestressed structures; Abstract; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notation; 1 Introduction; 2 Behaviour of externally prestressed structures; 3 Collapse analysis; 4 Results; 5 Discussion of the results; 6 Conclusion and Recommendations; References; Codes of practice; Appendix

Notes:

Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783836622981

383662298X

OCLC:

679421034