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.