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Advantage Pre Stresssed Concrete
Advantage Pre Stresssed Concrete
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12. The development of prestressed concrete results in the construction of a sizable liquid-
retaining structure that would not otherwise be possible.
13. Large liquid retaining structures constructed from prestressed concrete have low cost and are
preferably safe against cracking and consequent leakage.
14. Prestressed concrete can be used with advantage in all those structures where tension
develops, such as tie and suspender of a bow string girder, railway sleepers, electric poles,
upstream face of gravity dam etc.
15. Prestressed concrete beams have usually low deflection.
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