Prestressed Concrete Design to Eurocodes

by Prab Bhatt

Ordinary concrete is strong in compression but weak in tension. Even reinforced concrete, where steel bars are used to take up the tension that the concrete cannot resist, is prone to cracking and corrosion under low loads. Prestressed concrete is highly resistant to stress, and is used as a building material for bridges, tanks, shell roofs, floors, buildings, containment vessels for nuclear power plants and offshore oil platforms. With a wide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367865475
• ISBN13: 9780367865474
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"