Testing of Full Scale Pre-Stressed Concrete Beams
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ralf Lindberg
Nina Lindberg Anssi Laaksonen Ilkka Vilonen |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Workshop: Safety, Failures and Robustness of Large Structures, Helsinki, Finland, 14-15 February 2013 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Workshop, 14-15 February 2013, Helsinki | ||||
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| Page(s): | 170-176 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2013 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137813807018881 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper deals with testing of pre-stressed I-beams, the behaviour of the beams under loading, strengthening methods and their function. In the near history in Finland large commercial buildings have been built using pre-stressed pre-fabricated beams. The cost efficiency has led to designing very slender beams with higher pre-stress forces. This has caused problems in pre-stressed beams around Finland. Damages has been so se-vere that immediate repair of the beams has been necessary in some cases. Tampere University of Technology helped develop and tested these strengthening methods. The results of the tests led to development of a formula that estimates the beam’s extra capacity after post-tensioned strengthening method. |
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| Keywords: |
testing strengthening prestressing concrete beam repairing post-tensioned bars
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