Publication detail

The pover of prestressing

STRÁSKÝ, J.

English title

The pover of prestressing

Type

journal article - other

Language

en

Original abstract

The idea of prestressing – a product of the tventieth century – has announced the single most significant new direction in structural engineering of any period of history. It putinto the hands of the designer an ability to control structural behaviour and, at the same time,it enabled the designer – of forced the designer- to think more deeply about the construction. Moreover, the idea of prestressing opened up new possibilities for a form that influences the general culture. To focus on that fact, and to narrow the scope, the paper will consider bridges only, even though prestressing has broad applications to all kinds of buildings. However, the idea of prestressing arose out of bridge design, and its most impressive forms, from a purely engineering viewpoint, have appeared in bridges

English abstract

The idea of prestressing – a product of the tventieth century – has announced the single most significant new direction in structural engineering of any period of history. It putinto the hands of the designer an ability to control structural behaviour and, at the same time,it enabled the designer – of forced the designer- to think more deeply about the construction. Moreover, the idea of prestressing opened up new possibilities for a form that influences the general culture. To focus on that fact, and to narrow the scope, the paper will consider bridges only, even though prestressing has broad applications to all kinds of buildings. However, the idea of prestressing arose out of bridge design, and its most impressive forms, from a purely engineering viewpoint, have appeared in bridges

Keywords in English

prestressing, bridge, structural behaviour, load balancing, boundary conditions

RIV year

2003

Released

01.01.2003

Publisher

Thomas Telford Publishing, London E14 4JD

Location

London

ISSN

1464-4177

Journal

Structural Concrete

Volume

2003

Number

1

Edition number

1

Pages from–to

25–43

Pages count

19

BIBTEX


@article{BUT41636,
  author="Jiří {Stráský},
  title="The pover of prestressing",
  journal="Structural Concrete",
  year="2003",
  volume="2003",
  number="1",
  month="January",
  pages="25--43",
  publisher="Thomas Telford Publishing, London E14 4JD",
  address="London",
  issn="1464-4177"
}