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PRESTRESSING SYSTEMS
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

PRESTRESSING SYSTEMS

 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 PRESTRESSING BED
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 ABUTMENTS
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 MOULDS
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 HYDRAULIC JACK
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 ANCHORING DEVICE
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 HARPING DEVICE
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 DUCTS
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 HARDWARE & DEVICES

 COUPLERS  GROUTING EQUIPMENT
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 PRETENSIONING SYSTEMS
 HOYER SYSTEM (Long Line Method)
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 PRETENSIONING SYSTEMS
 HOYER SYSTEM (Long Line Method)

 used for mass production

 in this system, the end abutments are kept sufficient distance

apart, and several members are cast in a single line

 the shuttering is provided at the sides and b/w the members

 the end abutments have to be sufficiently stiff and have good

foundations
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 PRETENSIONING SYSTEMS
 SHORER SYSTEM

 in this system a central tube of high strength steel carries the

prestress from surrounding wires and the entire assembly is placed
in position and concreted

 after the concrete has attained sufficient strength, the tube is

removed and the prestress is transferred to concrete through bond

 the hole left by the tube is grouted

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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 MAGNEL BLATON SYSTEM
 FREYSSINET SYSTEM
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 GIFFORD UDALL SYSTEM  LEE McCALL SYSTEM
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 FREYSSINET SYSTEM

 the first post-tensioning method introduced by the French

Engineer Freyssinet

 in this system, high strength steel wires of 5mm or 7mm

diameter, numbering 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 are grouped into a
cable with a helical spring inside and a cable is inserted in
the duct
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 FREYSSINET SYSTEM

 anchorage device consists of a concrete cylinder with a

concentric conical hole and corrugations on its surface, and a
conical plug carrying grooves on its surface where steel wires are
carried along these grooves at the ends

 wires are pulled by Freyssinet double acting jacks which can pull
through suitable grooves all the wires in the cable at a time
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 FREYSSINET SYSTEM

 one end of the wires is anchored and the other end is pulled
till the wires are stretched to the required length

 an inner piston in the jack then pushes the plug into the
cylinder to grip the wires
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 MAGNEL BLATON SYSTEM

 introduced by a famous engineer, Prof. Magnel of Belgium

 in this sytem, the anchorage device consists of sandwich

plate having grooves to hold the wires and wedges which
are also grooved
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 MAGNEL BLATON SYSTEM

 each plate carries eight wires and between the two ends the
spacing of the wires is maintained by spacers

 a specially deviced jack pulls two wires at a time and

anchors them
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 GIFFORD UDALL SYSTEM

 originated in Great Britain and is widely used in India

 this is a single wire system in which each wire is stressed

independently using a double acting jack
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 GIFFORD UDALL SYSTEM

 in this system, any number of wires can be grouped together

to form a cable and wires are locked into the tapered holes
by means of anchor wedges

 the anchor wedeges are attached to the end shutters and

form an efficient cast-in component of the anchorage
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 POST-TENSIONING SYSTEMS
 LEE McCALL SYSTEM

 in this system, the steel bars with diameter of between 12 and

28mm, provided with threads at the ends, are inserted in the
performed ducts

 after stretching the bars to the required length, they are

tightened using nuts against bearing plates provided at the
end sections of the member
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 OTHER PRESTRESSING METHODS

 ELECTRICAL PRESTRESSING

 in this method, reinforcing bars is coated with thermoplastic

material such as sulphur or low melting alloy and buried in the
concrete

 after the concrete is set, electric current of low voltage but

high amperage is passed through the bar
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 OTHER PRESTRESSING METHODS

 ELECTRICAL PRESTRESSING

 electric current heats the bar and the bar elongates

 bars provided with threads at the other end are tightened

against heavy washers, after required elongation is obtained

 when the bar cools, prestress develops and the bond is

restored by resolidification of the coating
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 OTHER PRESTRESSING METHODS

 CHEMICAL PRESTRESSING

 prestressing can be applied by embedding steel in concrete

made of expanding cement

 steel is elongated by the expansion of the concrete and thus

gets prestressed

 steel in turn produces compressive stress in concrete