CRACKED BEAM-Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girder Structural Analysis Program

This paragraph lists several assumptions and limitations of this program. Most importantly, the program does not consider the effects of shear. All moment calculations are performed for a simply supported beam at
midspan. No more than 16 layers of prestressing steel may be entered. Minimally prestressed reinforcement in the top flange of the girder is not considered, all prestressing must be of the same magnitude. The program also
does not consider the effects of the reinforcement in the deck. Concrete tensile strength is assumed to be 7.5(f'c) 1/2 in order to find the cracking moment. Finally, the ultimate tensile stress of the prestressing tendons must
be entered as either 270 or 250 ksi. low-relaxation strands.
USER INPUTS
Cross-Section Dimensions
w=
0 in
t=
0 in
m=
16 in
a=
7 in
b=
4.5 in
c=
7 in
d=
19 in
g=
7.5 in
k=
7 in
j=
22 in
Span Length =

un-transformed
I
628.83
t
175.78
17378.08
22.78
457.33
0.00
I gross =

270 ksi

Es =

28500 ksi

f'c (deck) =

5 ksi

gc (deck) =

150 lbs/ft3

f'c (girder) =

7.7 ksi

gc (girder) =

151.4 lbs/ft3

INITIAL CALCULATIONS
Section Properties
Ac =
559.5 in2
Zt =
5071.1 in3
Zb =

6185.0 in3

yt =

24.73 in
20.27 in
125390.35 in4

Transformed Section Properties

nsteel =
6.32
nconcrete =

3931.2
g
I gross trans = 129516

0.95

Jacking force per tendon =

31 kips

Prestress losses =

9 %

Miscellaneous
Aps (total)=
eps =

5.202 in2
0.00647

Peffective =

959 kips

CGS of Steel

7.76 in

eccentricity =
Total depth =

11.92 in
45 in

Concrete Properties
Deck
Ec (deck) =
n (deck) =

Zt =

5116.0 in3

Peak strain (deck) =

Zb =

6579.8 in3

k (deck) =

yt =

25.32 in
19.68 in
129515.97 in4

Tendon Layout at Location of Analysis

Layer
Steel location
Number of tendons
from the bottom
in each layer
(in)
1
20
2
2
18
2
3
16
2
4
14
2
5
12
2
6
10
2
7
8
2
8
6
4
9
4
6
10
2
10
11
12
13

587.2 in2

I=

Prestressing Steel
Aps (1 tendon)=
0.153 in2

Ac =

yb =

Ad2
m
43327.73
6528.79
1075.77
b
5331.84 a
50463.40
0.00
d
125390.35

Material Properties

I=

transformed
I
Ad2
628.83
40335.82
175.78
5833.87
17378.08
1720.82
22.78
5726.27
457.33
53305.18
0.00
0.00

64.33 ft

fpu (250 or 270) =

yb =

4287 ksi
2.80 psi
0.0018
1.23 psi
Girder

Ec (girder) =
n (girder) =
Peak strain (girder) =
k (girder) =
flexural modulus =
Dead Load Weight =

4510
3.88
0.0023
1.53
658.1
588.3

ksi
psi
psi
psi
lbs/ft

14
15
16

UNCRACKED ANALYSIS
Miscellaneous (Midspan)
Total Dead Load Moment =
Moment due to deck only =
Decompression Moment =
Cracking Moment =

304.3
0.0
1892.7
2253.5

Steel and Concrete Stress Calculator (Midspan)

Input a distributed load =
3000.0 lbs/ft
0.0 Moment due to distributed load only =
1551.9 ft-kips
Total Moment =
1856.2 ft-kips

ft-kips
ft-kips
ft-kips
ft-kips

Top fiber concrete stress =

Bottom fiber concrete stress =
Bottom tendon layer stress =
Top fiber concrete strain =
Bottom fiber concrete strain =

Dead Load Conditions (Midspan)

Top fiber concrete stress =
-0.193 ksi
Bottom fiber concrete stress =
-2.897 ksi
Bottom tendon layer stress =
184.4 ksi
Top fiber concrete strain =
-0.000043
Bottom fiber concrete strain =
-0.000642

-3.834 ksi
-0.067 ksi
200.4 ksi
-0.000043
-0.000015

Calculations for an input Moment at any location along the Girder

Input Moment for the analysis =
1856.2 ft-kips
Top fiber concrete stress =
-3.834 ksi
Bottom fiber concrete stress =
-0.067 ksi
Bottom tendon layer stress =
200.4 ksi
Top fiber concrete strain =
-0.000043
Bottom fiber concrete strain =
-0.000015
CRACKED ANALYSIS
c=
ec =

Input Variables
20.9836 in

Out Put

0.003

T-C=

0.00

kips

0.000115

Moment =

3284

ft-kips

-0.00077

Moment Finder
Desired Moment =

2044.4

ec =

Moment
(ft-kips)
3284
2090
2007

Desired Strain
3500
3000
2500
Mom ent (ft-kips)

0.003
0.001
0.00095

ft-kips

2000
1500
1000
500

0
0.003

2044.4
2044.4

0
0

0.00025 0.0005

0.00075

0.001

0.00125 0.0015

0.00175

0.002

0.00225 0.0025

0.00275

0.003

Strain

Find tension in the steel:

Layer

1
2
3
4
5
6

steel loc.
(in)

Number of tendons
in each layer

C.G.S.
(in)

strain due to bending

20
18
16
14
12
10

2
2
2
2
2
2

6.12
5.51
4.90
4.28
3.67
3.06

0.0005742
0.0008602
0.0011461
0.0014320
0.0017180
0.0020039

strain due to
negative curvature

total strain

-0.0003739
-0.0004131
-0.0004522
-0.0004914
-0.0005305
-0.0005696

0.00742
0.00774
0.00807
0.00839
0.00872
0.00904

fps

Aps

Fps

(ksi)

(in2)

(kips)

211.40
220.67
229.93
239.20
246.72
250.42

0.306
0.306
0.306
0.306
0.306
0.306

64.69
67.52
70.36
73.19
75.50
76.63

7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

8
6
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
0

2
4
6
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGS of Steel =

2.45
3.67
3.67
3.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
7.76

0.0022899
0.0025758
0.0028617
0.0031477
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000

-0.0006088
-0.0006479
-0.0006871
-0.0007262
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000
0.0000000

0.00937
0.00969
0.01002
0.01034
0.00000
0.00000
0.00000
0.00000
0.00000
0.00000

253.11
255.15
256.75
258.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00

0.306
0.612
0.918
1.53
0
0
0
0
0
0
T=

77.45
156.15
235.69
394.79
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1291.98

Find the compression in the concrete:

Shape

Var. Width of Trap

Area
(in2)

Centroid Loc.

Location

Concrete strain
at location

Slab

0.0

0.0

Top Rectangle

112.0

3.5

Top Tapezoid

51.8

9.0

Web

66.4

16.2

Bottom Tapezoid

0.0

Bottom Rectangle

0.0

0.0

top of slab
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
bot. of slab
top of girder
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
top of trapezoid
1
2
3
4
top of web
1
2
3
4
top of trapezoid
1
top of bot. rect.
1
bottom of comp block

0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.003000
0.002900
0.002800
0.002700
0.002600
0.002500
0.002400
0.002299
0.002199
0.002099
0.001999
0.001871
0.001742
0.001613
0.001485
0.001356
0.000813
0.000269
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000
0.000000

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Avg. Concrete
Stress (ksi)

Compressive
Force (kips)

M
(ft-kips)

0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
5.06
5.52
5.98
6.42
6.83
7.19
7.48
7.70
7.68
7.61
7.50
7.30
7.03
6.69
6.30
5.85
3.64
1.21
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00

0.00

0.00

763.47

2146.32

350.76

826.59

177.75

310.97

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

1291.98

3284

C=