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Prestressed Concrete Course Guide

This document provides information on the CE354U(C) course "Prestressed Concrete" including its teaching scheme, evaluation scheme, course description and objectives, course outcomes, relevance to program outcomes, course content, textbooks, and reference books. The key points are: 1) The course aims to provide tools to design and build prestressed concrete structures and covers concepts of prestressing, analysis, design of beams and slabs, and maintenance. 2) Upon completion, students will be able to comprehend prestress losses, design prestressed flexural sections, evaluate loss systems, and design beams, slabs, and understand structure rehabilitation. 3) Course content includes introduction to prestressing, analysis, loss estimation

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Prestressed Concrete Course Guide

This document provides information on the CE354U(C) course "Prestressed Concrete" including its teaching scheme, evaluation scheme, course description and objectives, course outcomes, relevance to program outcomes, course content, textbooks, and reference books. The key points are: 1) The course aims to provide tools to design and build prestressed concrete structures and covers concepts of prestressing, analysis, design of beams and slabs, and maintenance. 2) Upon completion, students will be able to comprehend prestress losses, design prestressed flexural sections, evaluate loss systems, and design beams, slabs, and understand structure rehabilitation. 3) Course content includes introduction to prestressing, analysis, loss estimation

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CE354U(C): PRESTRESSED CONCRETE

Teaching Scheme: 3L Total: 3 Hr Credit: 3


Evaluation Scheme: 30MSE + 10 ISA + 60 ESE Total Marks: 100
Duration of ESE: 3 Hrs

Course Description
This course is intended to provide the engineering student with the basic tools required to
design and build prestressed concrete structures. Emphasis will be placed on the behavior of
prestressed concrete under load along with potential failure mechanisms
Course Objectives
1. To prepare civil engineering graduates who can analyze and design prestressed
concrete structures.
2. To study concept of pre-stressed concrete methods of pre-stressing along with its
advantages
3. To study concept of analysis & design of Pre-stressed concrete sections
4. To understand various aspects of maintenance and rehabilitation of prestressed
concrete structures
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the students will:
1. comprehend the concept of prestress and losses in prestress
2. appraise the prestressed flexure section for strength and deflection using limit state
method
3. evaluate the losses in prestressed system
4. design the prestressed concrete beams and the pre-stressed and post-tensioned
concrete slabs
5. understand maintenance and rehabilitation of prestressed concrete structures
Relevance of Program Outcomes (POs)and strength of co-relation

PO PSO
CO
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
1 2 1 1 2 1 3
2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2
3 2 2 3 2 2 2
4 2 3 2 2 1 3
5 2 2 1 2 2

1-Weakly correlated 2 – Moderately correlated 3 – Strongly correlated


Course Content

Introduction to prestressed concrete


Introduction to basic concept and general principle of prestressed concrete, materials used in
prestressed concrete, prestressing systems, concepts of prestressing, losses in prestress, cable
profile and cable zone.
Analysis of prestressed concrete
Analysis of prestressed concrete section for flexure, philosophy of limit state design for
prestressed concrete members, efficiency of a section, permissible stresses in concrete and
steel, deflections of prestressed concrete members, Anchorage zone stresses in prestressed
concrete members

Losses in Prestressed systems


Introduction to prestressed losses and its Significance, Estimation of prestressed losses in
pretensioned and post tensioned systems as per IS code.

Design of prestressed concrete beams


Design of post tensioned prestressed concrete simply supported rectangular and flanged
sections for flexure, shear, bond and bearing including end block.

Design of prestressed concrete slabs


Design of one way and two way pre-tensioned and post tensioned slabs

Maintenance and rehabilitation of prestressed concrete structures


General aspects of maintenance and rehabilitation. Inspection of structures. Use of NDT
equipment’s in the inspection. Cracks in prestressed concrete structures- remedy and repair.
Repair and rehabilitation of prestressed concrete structures. Strengthening of prestressed
concrete structures.

Text books:
1. Prestressed Concrete, N. Krishna Raju, Tata McGraw Hill Publication Co., 6th edition,
2018
2. Prestressed Concrete, S. Ramamrutham, , Dhanpat Rai and Sons, 2003

Reference books:
1. Design of Prestressed concrete structures, T. Y. Lin, John Wiley Publishers, 1981
2. Prestressed Concrete, Y. Guyon, , Contractors Record Ltd.,1960
3. Prestressed Concrete, R. H. Evans and E.W. Bennett, , McGraw Hill Book Co, 1990
4. IS: 1343-2012: Indian Standard code of practice for Prestressed concrete, BIS, New
Delhi.

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