Prestressed Concrete Design to Eurocodes

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Prestressed Concrete Design to Eurocodes

Earthquake engineering Building construction and materials

Author: Prab Bhatt

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Language: English

Published by: CRC Press

Published on: 23rd June 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 29 Mb

ISBN: 9781136939990


Ordinary Concrete

Ordinary concrete is strong in compression but weak in tension. Even reinforced concrete, where steel bars are used to take up the tension that the concrete cannot resist, is prone to cracking and corrosion under low loads.

Prestressed Concrete

Prestressed concrete is highly resistant to stress, and is used as a building material for bridges, tanks, shell roofs, floors.

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