CONCRETE

REINFORCED | PRESTRESSED
Presented by:
Solares, Fiel Ericson R.
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 a stone-like material created by
letting a properly proportioned
mixture of cement, sand and
gravel (or other coarse aggregate)
and water to form into the desired
shape and size.

Concretes with a wide range of

properties can be obtained by

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appropriate adjustment of the
proportions of the constituent
materials.

To change the workability,

durability, and hardening time of
concrete, one or more admixtures
are sometimes utilized.
HISTORY OF CONCRETE
The qualities that make concrete a common
building material are so strong that it has been
utilized for thousands of years in more primitive
forms and ways than it is now, beginning with lime
mortars in Crete, Cyprus, Greece, and the Middle
East from 12,000 to 6000 BCE.

In 1824, an English mason named Joseph Aspdin

acquired a patent for a cement he called portland
cement because of its color, which was quite
identical to the stone quarried off the coast of
England on the Isle of Portland.
 Francois Le Brun

Joseph Lambot

NOTABLE Joseph Monier

CONTRIBUTORS
Francois Coignet

Francois Hennebique
 William Fairbairn

William B. Wilkinson

NOTABLE Gustav Adolf Wayss

CONTRIBUTORS
Thaddeus Hyatt

Francois Hennebique
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES
OF CONCRETE?

High fire most constituent High

and weather materials are compressive
resistance usually available strength
at low cost
WHAT ARE THE DISADVANTAGES
OF CONCRETE?

Low tensile Brittle Uneconomical as

strength material a sole building
material
Before the concrete is poured, the reinforcement,
which is usually round steel rods with suitable surface
deformations for interlocking, is put in the forms.

The resulting material, known as reinforced concrete,

combines many of the advantages of both: concrete's
low cost, high tensile strength, good compressive
strength, and excellent formability, and steel's high
tensile strength and substantially better ductility and

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toughness.

This combination enables reinforced concrete's nearly

limitless range of uses and possibilities in the

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construction of buildings, bridges, dams, tanks,
reservoirs, and a variety of other structures.
PRESTRESSED
CONCRETE It utilizes a mix of high-strength steels and concretes. The steel,
in the form of wires, strands, or bars, is implanted in the
concrete under high tension, which is balanced by compressive
stresses in the concrete after hardening.

Prestressing substantially decreases both deflections and

tensile fractures in such constructions at typical loads, allowing
these high strength materials to be employed successfully.

Prestressing is generally utilized in concrete beams to alleviate

tension strains produced by the weight of the members and
superimposed loads.
Steel strands were fitted into
the bottom section of the
beam shape.
The strands were tensioned to
a very high stress.
The concrete was placed in the
form and allowed to gain
sufficient strength for the
prestressed strands to be cut.

The strands were cut.