Effect of Temperature on Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girder Strand Stress during Fabrication
2015-10
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Effect of Temperature on Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girder Strand Stress during Fabrication
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has reported erection cambers of many prestressed concrete bridge girders that were much lower than anticipated. A previous University of Minnesota study (O’Neill and French, MN/RC 2012-16) attributed the discrepancies to inaccurate estimates of the concrete strength and stiffness at release and strand force loss due to temperature during fabrication. The objective of this study was to further investigate the effects of temperature on strand force and camber during precast, prestressed girder fabrication and to make recommendations for the design and fabrication processes to improve the release camber estimation, if necessary. A thermal effects analysis was developed based on four key steps in the girder fabrication process: tensioning, concrete-steel bond, release, and normalization. The study included fabricating six short prestressed concrete segments released at early ages to determine the time/temperature associated with bonding the prestressing strand to the concrete. To investigate the non-recoverable prestress losses during girder fabrication, four sets of girders (MN54 and 82MW) were instrumented with thermocouples, strain gages, and in some cases load cells, that were monitored during the fabrication process to separate the thermal and mechanical strain components. Effects investigated included casting during a cold season, casting during a warm season, casting with the free length of strand covered, and casting with different bed occupancy during any season. A recommended procedure for adjusting strand force during tensioning was proposed to account for non-recoverable strand force changes due to temperature changes between tensioning and bond.
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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. October 2015. Major: Civil Engineering. Advisor: Catherine French. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 214 pages.
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Swenson, Tanner. (2015). Effect of Temperature on Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girder Strand Stress during Fabrication. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/175720.
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