Flexural Analysis of Prestressed Concrete
Flexural Analysis of Prestressed Concrete
➢ Flexural Analysis
▪ Given: concrete and steel section
magnitude and line of action of effective prestress force
▪ Check: permissible loads and stresses
➢ Flexural Design
▪ Given: permissible loads and stresses
▪ Check: concrete and steel section
magnitude and line of action of effective prestress force
FLEXURAL ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
➢ Pi + Self-Weight
➢ Pe + Ultimate Load
FLEXURAL ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
❑ NOTATIONS
➢ Eccentricity:
each support
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
external moment
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Initial Prestress Force
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Initial Prestress Force
be written as:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Initial Prestress Force
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Initial Prestress Force Plus Self-Weight
▪ The dead load of the beam will cause moment Mo to be
superimposed immediately.
▪ Consequently, immediately after transfer of prestress force, the
stresses at mid-span in the concrete are:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Initial Prestress Force Plus Self-Weight
▪ The resulting stress distribution is:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Effective Prestress Force Plus Full Service Loads (DL + LL)
▪ When the effective prestress Pe acts with the moments resulting
from self-weight (Mo), superimposed dead load (Md) and
superimposed live load (Ml) the resulting stresses are:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
❑ ELASTIC STRESS
Effective Prestress Force Plus Full Service Loads (DL + LL)
▪ The resulting stress distribution is:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
▪ To find the lower kern dimension, the concrete stress at the top
surface is set equal to zero:
▪ Solving for the particular eccentricity e = k2, the lower kern limit is:
ELASTIC FLEXURAL STRESSES IN UNCRACKED BEAMS
▪ Similarly, the upper kern limit is found by setting the expression for
the concrete stress at the bottom surface equal to zero:
* The minus sign confirms that the limit dimension is measured upward
from the concrete centroid
Cracking Load
The cracking load represents the limit of validity of
those equations for elastic stresses in the concrete
that are based on the homogeneous cross section.
Pe ec2 M cr
f2 = − 1 + 2 + = fr
Ac r S2
r2
M cr = f r S 2 + Pe + e
c
2
M cr − M o − M d
Fcr =
Ml