USN 10CV74

Seventh Semestttr B.E. Degree Examination, June/July 2019

Design of Prestressed Concrete $tructures
Time: 3 hrs. Max. Marks:100

malpractice. Note: l. Answer any FIVE full questions, selecting

atleast TWO questions fromeach part.
2. Use of IS:1343-1980 is permitted.
3. Assume any suituble missing data.
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treated PART -A
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1 a. What is the necessity of using high strengh concrete and high steel in prestressed concrete?
will (08 Marks)
blank b. Differentiate between pretensioning and pst tensioning. (05 Marks)
=S0, C. What are the factors influencing the creep d shrinkage of concrete. (07 Marks)
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2 a. What is pressure line or thrust line? Explain its significance with sketches.
cg. b. A concret beam of symmetrical I section supports a superimposed load of 3 kN/m(06 Marks),
over a
thewritten span of 8m. It is prestressed by a cable carrying a fotce of 120 kN at an eccentricity of
on 150mm at midspan section. The bottom and top flanges of the I- beam are 250mm wide and
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80mm deep, thickness of the web is 80m1n and overall depth is 450mm. Determine the
resultant stresses at midspan section for the tollowing cases:
() Prestress + Self weight
/or (iü) Prestress + Self weight + live load
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Neglect the loss. Density of concrete - 24 Nm' (14 Marks)
3 a. List the various types of loss of prestress in pretensio ned and post
tensioned members and
WT0te equations used to calculate the losse (06 Marks)
o b. In a prestressed pretensionedconcrete bea:of c/s 200mm x 300mm depth and
with an initial pre-stressing force of 400k \. at an cccentricity of 70mm by span of
anneal 6 m,
tendons of area
identification. 400mm. Assume E, = 2x10 N/mm, and E = 0.33x10 N/mm, creep coefficient is 2
shrinkage of concrete = 0.0002 and rel1tion in steel = 3% of initial stress. Find the
percentage loss in prestress. (14 Marks)
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of a Distinguish clearly between short term and long tem deflections of prestressed concrete
revealing beams. (06 Marks)
b. The deck of a prestressed concrete culvert is made up of a
slab 500mm thick. The slab is
spanning over 10.4m and supporls
Any loads of 33.5 kN/m. The modulus uniformiy distributed load comprising the dead and live
of claswity of concrete is 38 kN/mm. The concrete slab
2. is prestressed by straight cables each containg 12
328mm intervals in the transverse direction Estimate high-tensile wires of cables are spaced at
the instantaneous direction of the slab
at centre of span under prestress and imnpovd loads.
(14 Marks)

PART -B
a.. What are the different flexural failure modes
Explain with neat sketches. observed in prestressed concrete beams?
(08 Marks)
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b. A post-tensioncd prestressed Tee beam having aflange width of 1200mm and flange
thickness of 200mm, thickness of web being 300mm is prestressed by 2000mm of high
tensile steel, located at an efletive depth of 1600mm. If f = 40 N/mm and
,- 1600N/mm, estimate the f ural strength of the unbonded Tee section, assuming
span/depth ratio as 20 and fpe 10 N/mm'. (12 Marks)

6 a. Distinguish between web shear, fle xural-shear cracks in concrete beam with sketches.
b. A prestressed concrete beam, span (05 Marks)
1Om of rectangular Section, 120mm wide and 300mm
deep. is prestressed by force of 180 kN. The
of 5kN/m which includes self weight ofbeam supports a total uniformly distributed load
the member. Compare the magnitude of the
principal tension developed in the eam, for the following cases.
(i) with axial prestress
(ii) without axial prestress
(ii) with parabolic cable having max cccentricity of
the supports. 100mm at the centre of span and zero at
(1S Marks)

7 a. What is transmission length? List th: various tactos

influencing transmission length.
b. The end block of a post
tensioned ieam is 80mm wide and 16Omm deep. A (06 Marks)
wire, 7mm in diameter, stressed to 1200 N/mm has to be prestressing
the centre. The anchorage plate is 50mm by anchored against the end block at
female cone of 20mm diameters. Given the 50mm. The wire bears on the plate through a
20 N/mm and the permissible shear in steel permissible stress in concrete at transfer fci as
as 94.5 N/mm', determine the thickness
anchorage plate. of the
(14 Marks)

8 a. Write a short note on limiting zon for cables in

b. A prestressed concrete beam of PSC. (06 Marks)
tctangular section 90mm wide and
designed to support two loads of SKN cach located at one third 180mm deep is to be
points over a
transfer and working stage. Calculate thespan
The tensile stress is not permitted oth at of 3m.
prestressing force and the corresponding eccentricity loss factor as 0.8. minimum
(14 Marks)
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