Design of Prestressed Concrete strctures
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Design of Prestressed Concrete strctures Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Design of Prestressed Concrete strctures (subject code 3732006) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 22 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3732006)Unit 1 Introduction
- Principles of prestressing - types and systems of prestressing
- need for High Strength materials
- Loading stages
- Determination of losses
- deflection (short-long term)
- cable layouts
Unit 2 Statically determinate PSC beams
- Analysis and design for ultimate and serviceability limit states for flexure
- bond and torsion
- code provisions
Unit 3 Transmission of prestress
- Prestress Transmission in pre-tensioned members
- Anchorage zone stresses and design for post-tensioned members
Unit 4 Statically indeterminate structures
- Analysis and design of continuous beams
- choice of cable profile
- linear transformation and concordance
Unit 5 Design of structural elements
- Analysis and design of various structural elements like slab
- Application in the design of prestressed pipes and prestressed concrete cylindrical water tanks
Unit 6 Composite construction
- Analysis and design of precast PSC beams and cast in-situ RC slab
- creep and shrinkage effects
- Partial prestressing - principles
- analysis and design concepts
- crack width calculations
- Subject Code: 3732006 w.e.f
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