Flexural strength of externally prestressed concrete bridges

ACI Structural Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 512-523

  Aparicio, Angel C ^a   Ramos, Gonzalo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bridges; External prestressing; Prestressed concrete; Strength; Unbonded prestressing

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; BUILDING CODES; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESSES;

EXTERNAL PRESTRESSING; UNBONDED PRESTRESSING;

BRIDGES;

EID: 0030243059     PISSN: 08893241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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