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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458942703321

Autore

Tandler Jens

Titolo

Collapse analysis of externally prestressed structures [[electronic resource] /] / Jens Tandler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2009

ISBN

3-8366-2298-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

624.28

624/.28

Soggetti

Prestressed construction

Building failures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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