Prestressed Concrete Pavements: Status Report
Prestressed concrete is cost-competitive with and requires less maintenance than conventional concrete, but acceptance of prestressed pavements in this country has been slow. While Europe...
Upside Down Casting Prestresses Modules for Short Span Bridges
Ski House Has Prestressed Roof
Finite Element Analysis of a Taxiway Bridge
Planning, Analysis, Design and Construction of 5900 Ft. (1800M) Long Causeway for Crude Oil Export
Protecting Post-Tensioning Tendons in Concrete Structures
Patterns of corrosion problems related to tendon systems are analyzed based on the author's experience in evaluating over 50 corrosion related performance problems in prestressed...
Pre-stressed Grouting of High Pressure Waterways
Sweden Hosts International Congress on Prestressed Concrete
Bridge Recognized as Model of Prestressed/Precast Highway Bridges
The Safety of Prestressed Concrete as Affected by Creep and Fatigue
Swiss Bridge Design Spans Time and Distance
Having long played crucial roles in Switzerlands history, modern bridges there now lead technical innovation in design and construction. Two recently completed Swiss Bridges bridges of...
Concrete Materials: Requirements vs. Performance
Notched Trusses Give Low-Cost Conversion of Hangars for Jumbo Jets
Physically notching the structural members in a hangar roof solved the problem of moving new DC-10 aircraft into and out of maintenance hangars built for smaller, earlier-generation commercial...
Effective Utilization of Computer-Aided Design
On the Stability of Stiffened Thin Shell Dome Liners for Prestressed Concrete Reactor Containment Structures
Deflection of Transversely Loaded Prestressed Circular Plates
Prestressed Concrete Airfield Pavements
Full-Depth, Full-Width Design, and Prestressed Concrete Pave the Way for Arizona's Highways
In an attempt to resolve design problems of Arizona's non-reinforced portland cement concrete pavements, a series of test installations are being made involving a comparison...
Philadelphia Bridge Sparked Growth of Prestressed Concrete in the U.S.
Prestressing has been used for centuries. For instance, iron bands were heat-shrunk over built-up wooden wheels to increase their resistance to damage. In 1888, a man named Jackson from...
Nambe Falls Dam�First Mechanically Prestressed Concrete Dam in U.S.
An unusual combination of a curved earth embankment, a concrete gravity thrust block, and concrete thin arch prestressed with embedded vertical flat jacks has created Nambe Falls Dam,...
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