'Prestressed beams' provides design calculations for a range of precast beam and slab or beam and infill slab bridge decks in accordance with Eurocode 2, including prestress losses, creep and shrinkage effects, Magnel diagrams, ULS moment and shear capacities and SLS stress histories.

Contents (22 pages)

• Beam details
• beam and composite properties
• creep and shrinkage
• loading
• strands
• pre-stress losses
• Magnel diagram
• differential shrinkage and temperature effects
• design forces
• partial factors
• section design forces
• SLS stress histories
• re-bar at beam ends
• ULS moment and shear capacities.