Prestressed Concrete Designer's Handbook
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 2, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780721012278
Subjects: Structural engineering; Engineering - Civil; Technology & Industrial Arts
First sentence: Prestressing may be defined as the purposeful and controlled creation of permanent stresses in a structural member, before the full dead and live loads are applied, so as to counteract all or part of these loads.