Literature review

2.Serviciability based design of partially prestressed Beams

From a behavioral viewpoint, they crack under a fraction of the specified live load;
essentially, in the cracked state they act as reinforced concrete beams subjected
to combined bending and compression, while in the untracked state they act as
prestressed beams;
To take advantage of the effect of prestressing, partially prestressed beams are
generally designed not to crack under the sole effect of dead load. Cracking will
occur due to the application of full live load;
it leads to a sudden shift in the location of neutral axis (zero stress point) along the
cross section of the member and a sudden increase in stresses in the steel and the
concrete. Since live load is usually repetitive, its effect on the fatigue
characteristics of the materials involved must be assessed.
PPR –

The term Partial Prestressing Ratio a (PPR) used by the authors

is the ratio of ultimate resisting moment due to a a
the prestressing steel to the ultimate

If dp = d 8 or if d is defined as the distance from the extreme

compressive fiber to the centroid of the tensile force, the value
of PPR is reduced to convenient form: