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Time:

ivlax Marks: 60

3 hrs.

Note: All parts

Answer anY FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
be answered at one place'

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tensioning and post tensioning systems?

Explain general principals of pre
tensioned members?
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tensioned and post t""tion"O membeis
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Distinguish between cable line and
prestressed concrete beam ?
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suitable shear reinforcements in the section
strength of sti*ups is 415 N/*#,
usingls code recommendations ?

for the tie member of reinforced concrete

Design the pre stressing force required
tie member is 360kN. and the thickness of the
truss. The service rouJ-i"rrrion in the
permiisible compressive stress in concrete at
member is fixed as. 150 mm. The
loss ratio
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composite bridge deck of span r 2m is made up of a pre cast pre stressed

symmetrical I section and an in situ cast slab. The pre cast I beams are spaced at
750 mm centers and the top slab of the in situ concrete is 120mm thick. The cross
sectional details of the pre cast I beams are as follows: thickness ofthe top and bottom
flanges : I l0 mm, width of top and bottom flanges : 200mm, thickness of web : 75
mm, depth of pre cast I beam : 500 mm, self-weight of pre cast concret e = 24 kN/m3
self weight of cast in situ concrete : 23 .5a kN/m3, the pie stressed beam is un propped
during the placing of in situ concrete. The form work load is estimated tl be
0'2kNim. of the span. If the compressive pre stress in the beams is 15 N/mrn2 atthe
bottom and zero at the top , calculate the maximum stresses developed in the pre cast
and in situ cast concrete under an imposed load of 5 kN/m2, assuming the modular
ratio of cast in situ to pre cast concrete to be I .0.

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9)."Distinguish cleafly between short term deflections and long term deflections of
prestressed concrete members ?
b)
Discuss various methods of predicting long term deflections of pre stressed concrete
members ?
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Explain the importance of creep of concrete in long tenn deflections of prestressed
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Exptain with sketcles the effect of varying the ratio of depth anchorage to the depth of end
block on the distribution ofbursting tgnsion.
The end block of a pre stressed concrete beam, rectangular in section, is 120 mm
wide and-300-mm deep" The pre stressing force of 250kN is transmitted to concrete

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ends. Calculate the position artd magnitude of the maximum tensile stress on the
horizontal section through the centre of the end block using the Guyon method.
Yield stress in steel = 260 N/mm2.

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