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Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures (BZK)

A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Understanding of the behaviour of prestressed concrete structures.
• Design and construction of prestressed concrete structural members and structural systems, analysis and detailing.

structural mechanics, theory of elasticity, plasticity, concrete and masonry members, concrete and masonry structures

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1. Introduction, basic concept of prestressing. Behaviour of non-prestressed and prestressed concrete beams. Material properties of concrete, prestressing tendons and bars, manufacturing.
2. Prestressing technology, basic terminology. Pretensioned concrete. Post-tensioning operations, technology, prestressing systems.
3. Prestressing and its changes. Effects of prestressing on concrete members and structures. Equivalent load method. Design of prestressing using the load balancing method. Influence of the construction metod on design of prestressed structures. Structural analysis of segmentally constructed prestressed structures. Closed form solution of rheological effects on the structures.
4. General principles of prestress members dimensioning. Ultimate limit state (ULS) of prestressed members loaded by axial force and bending moment, decompression state, initial stress-state of the cross-section. Prestressed members loaded in shear and torsion, stress analysis, proportioning.
5. Analysis of the anchorage zone - stress, calculation model, check of resistance, reinforcement. Serviceability limit states (SLS). Limitation of stress, crack resistence, calculation of crack width. Control of deflection.
6. Design and realisation of selected prestressed structures of building constructions.
7. Design and realisation of selected prestressed structures both of building and engineering constructions.
8. Design and realisation of selected prestressed structures of engineering construction.
9.Application of prestressing on masonry structures – structural modifications, posibilities of inserting of prestressing, general principles of structural solution and dimensioning.
10. Strengthening of masonry structures by prestressing – possible methods of strengthening, application of unbonded reinforcement, structural modifications, metods of realisation, structural analysis.
11. Design and construction of general types of slabs and girder bridges.
12. Problems of design and construction of bridges built on the stationary and launch scaffolding, cantilever bridges, incrementally launched bridges.
13. Problems of design and construction of precast girder and segmental bridges.

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Understanding of the behaviour of prestressed concrete structures.
Design and construction of prestressed concrete structural members and structural systems, analysis and detailing.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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COLLINS, Michael P. a MITCHELL, Denis: Prestressed Concrete Structures. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991. ISBN 0-13-691635-X. (EN)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav: Prestressed Concrete Structures. Brno: CERM, 2006. ISBN 80-7204-462-1. (EN)
ROMBACH, Günter: Spannbetonbau. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2010. ISBN 978-3-433-02911-4. (DE)

BAŽANT, Zdeněk a KLUSÁČEK, Ladislav: Statika při rekonstrukcích objektů. Brno: CERM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-692-8. (CS)
GERWICK, Ben C.: Construction of Prestressed Concrete Structures. USA: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. ISBN 978-0-471-18113-2. (EN)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav a ZICH, Miloš: Předpjatý beton (průvodce předmětem v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2006. (CS)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav: Předpjaté betonové konstrukce. Brno: CERM, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7204-561-7. (CS)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav, ŠTĚPÁNEK, Petr a STRÁSKÝ, Jiří: Předpjaté stavební konstrukce (studijní opora v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2009. (CS)
PROCHÁZKA, Jaroslav a kol.: Navrhování betonových konstrukcí podle norem ČSN EN 1992 (EUROKÓDU 2). Část 2: Předpjatý beton. Praha: ČBS Servis, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87158-21-0. (CS)
Stráský, Jiří: Betonové mosty. Praha: ČSSI, 2001. ISBN 80-86426-05-X. (CS)