4th Edition

Concrete Structures Stresses and Deformations: Analysis and Design for Sustainability, Fourth Edition

By A. Ghali, R. Favre, M. Elbadry Copyright 2012
    672 Pages
    by CRC Press

    672 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This text presents the most effective analysis for predicting the true stresses and deflections of concrete structures, accounting for creep and shrinkage of concrete and relaxation of prestressed reinforcement. Sustainability has become a major requirement in modern structures, which need to sustain satisfactory service over a longer life. It is not rare to specify a life span of 100 years for infrastructure such as bridges. This complete and wide-ranging study of stresses and deformations of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures focuses on design methods for avoiding the deflections and cracking that diminish serviceability.



    This fourth edition has a new emphasis on designing for serviceability. It has been comprehensively updated. It now includes 65 solved examples and more than 45 instructive problems with answers given at the end of the book. An accompanying website contains design calculation programs, which allow interactive data input. Independent of codes of practice, the book is universally applicable, and is especially suitable for practising engineers and graduate students.



    Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete and Relaxation of Steel. Stress and Strain of Uncracked Sections. Special Cases of Uncracked Sections and Calculation of Displacements. Time-dependent Internal Forces in Uncracked Structures: Analysis by the Force Method. Time-dependent Internal Forces in Uncracked Structures: Analysis by the Displacement Method. Analysis of Time-dependent Internal Forces with Conventional Computer Programs. Stress and Strain of Cracked Sections. Displacements of Cracked Members. Simplified Prediction of Deflections. Effects of Temperature. Control of Cracking. Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement. Analysis and Design for Fatigue. Design for Serviceability of Prestressed Concrete. Nonlinear Analysis of Plane Frames. Serviceability of Members Reinforced with Fibre Reinforced Polymers. Appendix A: Time functions for Modulus of Elasticity, Creep, Shrinkage and Aging Coefficient of Concrete. Appendix B: Relaxation Reduction Coefficient. Appendix C: Elongation, End Rotation and Central Deflection of a Beam in Terms of the Values of Axial Strain and Curvature at a Number of Sections. Appendix D: Depth of Compression Zone in a Fully Cracked T Section. Appendix E: Crack Width and Crack Spacing. Appendix F: Values of Curvature Coefficients. Appendix G: Description of Computer Programs.

    Biography

    Amin Ghali is Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and several other institutions. He practices consulting engineering and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute committees, including ACI 435, Deflection of Concrete Building Structures.



    Renaud Favre is Emeritus Professor at the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was formerly a Member of Council and Vice President of fédération internationale du béton (fib).





    Mamdouh Elbadry is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. He is a structural engineering consultant and serves on several committees of the American Concrete Institute and on the fib task group on serviceability.