Course Number
565.630
Primary Program
Course Format
Online, Virtual Live

Topics include prestressed concrete concepts for both pretensioning and post-tensioning: materials, types of prestress, and prestress losses; design of sections for flexure, shear, torsion, and compression; load balancing technique; consideration of partial prestress, composite sections, and slab systems. Prerequisite(s): Open to EP Civil Engineering students only, or students who have taken a first (undergraduate) course in Reinforced Concrete Design.