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Engineering Tripos Part IIB
Prestressed Concrete - Module 4D8
This module is designed to introduce students to the principles of prestressed
concrete. It covers design and analysis of prestressed concrete structures
and is intended to form a useful basis for a future career as a practising
engineer.
This web page will contain all the lecture notes and handouts, together
with relevant papers.
All material is copyright C J Burgoyne. Any engineers designing structures
using the principles outlined here should satisfy themselves of the applicability
of those principles in any particular situation, and should also verify
for themselves the accuracy of any equations quoted.
Note that all links to teaching material can only be viewed from within
the cam.ac.uk domain
Computer Programs
There are a number of useful computer programs available for use to be found in the Red Tools system. (A link that should work from outside the department is here.) Follow the link to the Structures programs. These should not be used for Examples papers (excpet as a check) because you won't have access to them in exams, but they can be used for the design exercise.
- Elastic Design (Under Prestressed Concrete). Automates the techniques taught in lectures 3/4
- Ultimate Strnegth Design (Under Prestressed Concrete). Automates the techniques taught in lectures 5/6
- Macaulay's Method for Continuous Beams (Under Beams). Analyses continuous beams - useful for lectures 11/12
- Polygonal Cross-section analysis using perimeter method (Under Section properties). Useful for sections that cannot easily be idealised as a small number of rectanngles
Examples sheets (.pdf format)
Past Exam Papers (.pdf format)
Other material
History of Prestressed Concrete in the UK
Virtual Reality Model of Torridge Bridge
(local users can access the full VR model - all users can see screen-shots)
Winterton House - prestressing
a complete building
