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Integration and innovation By definition, outsourcing implies that the firm has once produced with its own employees what it now buys over the market. Instead, the
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There are a huge number of uses: • Railway Sleepers; • Communications poles; • Pre-tensioned precast “hollowcore” slabs; • Pre-tensioned Precast Double T units – for very long
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There are two methods of prestressing: • Pre-tensioning: Apply prestress to steel strands before casting concrete; • Post-tensioning: Apply prestress to steel tendons after casting concrete. Pre-tensioning
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Concrete The main factors for concrete used in PSC are: • Ordinary portland cement-based concrete is used but strength usually greater than 50 N/mm2; • A high early
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The classic everyday example of prestressing is this: a row of books can be lifted by squeezing the ends together: The structural explanation is that the row of books has zero tensile capacity. Therefore the ‘beam’ of books cannot even carry its self weight. To overcome this we provide an external initial stress (the prestress) which compresses the books together. Now they can only separate if the tensile stress induced by the self weight of the books is greater than the compressive prestress introduced. Concrete Concrete is very strong in compression but weak in tension. In an ordinary concrete beam the tensile stress at the bottom: are taken by standard steel reinforcement: But we still get cracking, which is due to both bending and shear: In prestressed concrete,
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The main advantages of prestressed concrete (PSC) are: Smaller Section Sizes Since PSC uses the whole concrete section, the second moment of area is bigger and so the section is stiffer: Smaller Deflections The larger second moment of area greatly reduces deflections for a given section size. Increased Spans The smaller section size reduces self weight. Hence a given section can span further with prestressed concrete than it can with ordinary reinforced concrete. Durability Since the entire section remains in compression, no cracking of the concrete can occur and hence there is little penetration of the cover. This greatly improves the long-term durability of structures, especially bridges and also means that concrete tanks can be made as watertight as steel tanks, with far greater durability.
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Which this paper aims to summarise.Although foamed concrete was used some 2000 years ago it wasn’t until recently that modern foamed concrete began to be developed. In 1987
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