Prestress L3

• Characteristics of High Strength Concrete

• Advantages of Prestress concrete

• Prestressing of concrete _. The ability to resist _ has been proved to be as good in

prestressed as in reinforced concrete

• Since the _ of prestressed concrete is comparatively better than that of other materials

• The use of _, particularly in long-span members, helps to reduce the shear forces developed

at the support sections

• In the _, prestressed concrete is generally more economical than reinforced concrete and

steel.

• A prestressed concrete flexural member is _ under working loads than a reinforced concrete

member of the same depth. However, after the onset of cracking, the flexural behavior of

a prestressed member is not similar to that of a reinforced concrete member. T or F

• The significant observations which resulted from the pioneering research on prestressed

concrete were:

• Prestressing steel is recommended for _ structures

• Prestressed concrete has considerable _ due to its capacity for completely recovering from

substantial effects of overloading without undergoing any serious damage

• steel in prestressed concrete were not successful, as a working stress of _ N/mm2 in mild

steel is more or less completely lost due to elastic deformation, creep and shrinkage of

concrete.

• The normal loss of stress in steel is generally about _ to _ N/mm2 and it is apparent that if

this loss of stress is to be a small portion of the initial stress, the stress in steel in the initial
stages must be very high, about _ to _ N/mm2. These high stress ranges are possible only

with the use of _.