Prestressed Concrete

Prestressing of concrete mitigates the danger of structural failure due to concrete's relatively low tensile capacity. Rajagopalan (formerly Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology) discusses the requisite materials, various prestressing systems and devices, analysis for flexure, limit states of collapse and serviceability, design for flexure, shear and torsion behavior, and other topics. The text generally uses Indian standard codes and international systems of units. Di…