Paper /Subject Code: 59025 /Program Elective IAdvanced Pre-stressed Concrete Structures

MECiv!
SemI P-2
(Time: 4 Hours) Total Marks - 80

Note - 1. Question Number 1is compulsoty. Attempt any three out of remaining questions.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Assume any suitable dataif heeded and justify the sarme.
4. Use of relevant IS and IRCcodes is permitted.

VA bOx girder of a prestressed concrete bridge is of span 50 m has overall dimensions of width
1o00mm and a depth of 2000 mm. the unifofm thickness of the walls being 25 mm. It is subjected
Oa maximum live load moment of 2200 KN-m. Design a box girder as class Itype structure and find
te number of cables required at mid span section with their position from centroidal axis. Cable
Consisting of 12 high tensile wires of8 mm diameter are initiallyprestressed to 1000 MPa. Assume
the compressive strength of concrete at transfer as l6 MPa and Joss ratio as 0.8. (32)
OR
Design apost tensioned prestressed concrete bridge deck slab for aNational highway crossing te sutt
the following data: (32)
Clear span = 10 m
Width of bearing = 400 mm
Live Load = IRC Class AA Tracked
Clear width of road =7.5 m
Footpath l.5 m on either sides
Kerb = 600 mm
Thickness of wearing coat = 100mm
Types of structure =class 1 type
Grade of Concrete = M40
/mm diameter high tensile wires with an ultimate tensile strength of 1500 MPa housed in cables with
12 wires and anchored by Freyssinet anchorages of 150 mm diameter. Adopt Fe 415 grade HYSD
bars. Compressive stress at transfer, foi = 35 MPa, Loss ratio = 0.8. Take permissible compressive
stresses in concrete at transfer and working loads, fe = 15 MPa and fr =12 MPa respectively, fr =
frw = 0

Q.2(a) Explain the slab action and plate action with referernce to folded plates subjected to
transverse loading with neat sketches. (04)
(b) Design concrete cylindrical shell roof covering an area of 10 m x30 m with prestressed edged
beams using following data. Radius of the shell =7.5 m, Semi central angle =40,chord width = 10
m, span of shell= 30 m, Thickness of shell = 75 mm, width of edge beam = 150 mm, depth of edge
beam = 1500 mm. (12)
uniform
Q.3 Two span continuous prestressed concrete beam ABC (AB = BC= 15 m) has a
rectangular cross section of 250 mm x 600 mm. A cable carrying an effective prestressing force of
500 kN is parallel to the axis of the beam and located at an eccentricity of 200 mm. Determine the
resultant and secondary moment developed at the mid support section B. Calculate the resultant
stresses at top and bottom fibres at mid span support B. Also locate the resultant line of thrust through
beam ABC. (12)
(b) What are the advantages of continuous members in prestressed concrete structures? (04)

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Paper /Subject Code: 59025 / Program Elective -
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which can
exert a due
support wire at its top andtheloss of stress
Q4 (a) Design an electric pole of height 10 mto
horizontal force of 2800 N. The tendons are initiallystressedto
1000 MPa compressivestressin
to shrinkage and creep is 16%. Consider width of pole as 300 mm.
Maximum
weighs 18000 N/mm?
Soil
concrete is limited to 12 MPa. Adopt Modular ratio, m=6, and =30°, (10)
(06)
(0) Wite ashort note on the maintenance of prestressed concrete structures.
(4)A deck slab of abridge of span 10 m is tobe designed as a one way prestressed concrete Siau
With parallel post tensioned cables in each of which the force at transfer is 480 kN.If the deck slaD 1S
red to support a unifornly distributed live load of 24 kN/m² with compressive and tensile
thiot concrete at any stage not to exceed 15 MPa and zero MPa respectively. Design the suitable
nckeness of the slab and also calculate the
position at the mid span section. Consider loss maximum
ratio as
horizontal spacing of the cables and their
0.8. (08)
(0)A mm, supported concrete beam of
x 350 Simply span7.5 m with a rectangular cross section of size 150
1S prestressed by the cables with mm
ma span and concentric at the supports. The parabolic profile having an eccentricity of 125 mm at
beam supports an imposed load of 2.5 kN/m.
effective force in the cable to balance the load and imposed load on the beam. Find the
principal tension at support
section. Also calculate the
Qo(a) A composite T-beam is (08)
a cast in situ slab 450 made up of a pre-tensioned rib 120
mm wide and 50 mm thick mm wide and 240 mm deep
differential having a and
shrinkage is
100x10units, modulus of elasticity of 28
cast in situ units. Also draw the stress determine the shrinkage stresses developed in thekN/m. If the
Aprecast
distribution diagram.
OR
precast and
pre-tensioned (12)
and is prestressed by beam of effective span Sm has a
in the tendons is
150 kN. The loss in
rectangular
tendons with their centroids
coinciding with
cross section T00 mm x 200
the mm
in a
composite prestress may be bottom kern. The
the resultant T-beam casting a top flange of
by considered as 15%. The
beam
initial force
stresses
and (ii) Propped developed the precast and
in width 400
and thickness of 40 incorporated
mm is
during the of cast
KN/m and 28 kN/m' casting slab. Consider E, for concrete if the beam is (i)mm. Calculate
in situ
(b) Explain respectofively.
various stages prestressed and cast in situ concrete
Un-propped
as 35
prestressing. (12)
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