James R. Libby ... 871 pages -
Publisher: Springer; (November, 2012) ...
Language: English -
ISBN-10: 1461367476 -
ISBN-13: 978-1461367475 ...
This book was written with a dual purpose, as a reference book for
practicing engineers and as a textbook for students of prestressed
concrete. It represents the fifth generation of books on this subject
written by its author. Significant additions and revisions have been
made in this edition. Chapters 2 and 3 contain new material intended to
assist the engineer in understanding factors affecting the
time-dependent properties of the reinforcement and concrete used in
prestressing concrete, as well as to facilitate the evaluation of their
effects on prestress loss and deflection. Flexural strength, shear
strength, and bond of prestressed concrete members were treated in a
single chapter in the of flexural strength has third edition. Now, in
the fourth edition, the treatment been expanded, with more emphasis on
strain compatibility, and placed in Chapter 5 which is devoted to this
subject alone. Chapter 6 of this edition, on flexural-shear strength,
torsional strength, and bond of prestressed reinforce ment, was
expanded to include discussions of Compression Field Theory and torsion
that were not treated in the earlier editions. In similar fashion,
expanded discussions of loss of prestress, deflection, and partial
prestressing now are presented separately, in Chapter 7. Minor additions
and revisions have been made to the material contained in the remaining
chapters with the exception of xv xvi I PREFACE Chapter 17. This
chapter, which is devoted to construction considerations, has important
new material on constructibility and tolerances as related to
prestressed concrete.
