Creep compensating prestress of tanks

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Title: Creep compensating prestress of tanks

Author(s): Troels Brondum-Nielsen

Publication: Structural Journal

Volume: 90

Issue: 1

Appears on pages(s): 32-36

Keywords: bending moments; circular prestressing; creep properties; prestressed concrete; stress analysis; stress relaxation; structural design; tanks (containers); Structural Research

DOI: 10.14359/4192

Date: 1/1/1993

Abstract:
The adverse effects of stress redistribution due to creep (or concrete stress relaxation) can be reduced by prestressing. Suggests a different, and apparently more economical, distribution of the circumferential prestress than that conventionally adopted.


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