CV8313- Fall 2015

RYERSON UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND SCIENCE
COURSE INFORMATION
CV8313- PRESTRESSED CONCRETE

Instructor

Dr. Reza Kianoush

Office: MON215
Phone: (416) 979-5000 ext 6455
Email: kianoush@ryerson.ca
Office hours: Wednesdays, 12 to 1 p.m. and Thursdays 2 to 3 p.m.

Course Name:

Prestressed Concrete

Course Number:

CV8313

Term:

Fall 2015

Textbook:

Prestressed Concrete Structures, M. Collins and D. Mitchell, 1997,

Response Publications

References:

Nawy, E.G. 2009. Prestressed Concrete, A Fundamental Approach,

Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall.
Concrete Design Handbook, 2006, Third Edition, Canadian Portland
Cement Association, Ottawa

Delivery Modes:

One lecture per week, Thursdays 3 to 6 PM

Grading:

Project (Report and Presentation)

Final Examination (open book), 3 hrs

30%
70%

Project: Students will be divided into groups of 3 to work on different projects which will be
assigned in the classroom. The project includes a 15 minute presentation by each student (plus
five minutes for questions) using PowerPoint. Each group will be required to submit a final report
one week following their presentations. The total mark for the project will be equally divided
between the report and the presentation (15% each). The report includes an assigned problem
from the textbook.

COURSE NAME:

Prestressed Concrete

COURSE OUTLINE
Activity
1

Basic Concept of Prestressing; Pretensioning and post-Tensioning Technology; Prestress

Loss; Material Properties;

Response of Members Subjected to Axial Load

Design for Flexure; Deflection of Prestressed Concrete Beams

Members Subjected to Shear; Design for Shear

Members Subjected to Torsion; Design for Torsion

Disturbed Regions; Strut and Tie Model; Design for Anchorage Zones

Course Description: The primary objective of this course is to explain the basic concepts
necessary to understand and predict the response of prestressed concrete members and to design
prestressed concrete structures. Basic Concept of prestressing including pretensioning and posttensioning technology will be reviewed. A comprehensive summary of the material properties of
concrete and prestressing steel is given. The course provides a basic understanding of prestressed
concrete behaviour including design procedure for members subjected to flexure and shear and
estimating relevant deflection of prestressed concrete beams. The course also demonstrates
briefly how the basic principles can be applied in the design of special prestressed structures such
as prestressed concrete bridges and prestressed concrete Containment Structures.