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EUROCODE 2 WORKED EXAMPLES - Federbeton

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EC2 – worked examples 6-45<br />

Table of Content<br />

Fig. 6.35 Plan and principal section of tendon layout<br />

Immediate losses of prestressing due to friction have been evaluated by means of the<br />

following expression:<br />

with:<br />

-μ�(α + k x)<br />

σpo (x) = σpo,max ⋅ e<br />

μ = 0.19 coefficient of friction between the tendons and their sheathing;<br />

k = 0.01 rad/m unintentional angular deviation.<br />

Prestressing has to be introduced in the FEM model in order to calculated the hyperstatic<br />

actions that arise in the structural scheme. Considering prestressing as an external load, it is<br />

possible to introduce it by means of two inclined forces at anchorages (representing actions<br />

at the extremity) and of a system of equivalent loads along tendon’s profile (representing<br />

tendon curvature and losses due to friction): these actions per tendon, should be applied<br />

consistently at the nodes of FEM model.<br />

The equivalent loads may be calculated subdividing the tendon profile into elementary<br />

segments and evaluating the internal action able to equilibrate the external one due to end<br />

actions deriving by the prestressing.

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