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The prestressed concrete beam has a rectangular cross section of 1600mm(deep)500mm(wide). The live load is 25kNm. The only dead load is the self-weight. Concrete density is 25kNm3. Total prestress losses after transfer are 22%.
Using load balancing of the total dead load and live load:
a. Calculate the prestress force (after all losses have occurred) that is necessary to balance the dead and live load.
b. Using the prestress force that you calculated in (a) above, calculate the midspan concrete stresses (top and bottom) under the full load after all losses have occurred, and also under self-weight load immediately after transfer.
Using partially prestressed design with the requirement that under dead load and live load the maximum tensile stress is 3.0 MPa (i.e. numerical value -3.0) after all losses have occurred:
c. Calculate the required prestress force after all losses have occurred.
d. Using the prestress force that you calculated in (c) above, calculate the midspan concrete stresses (top and bottom) after all losses have occurred, and also immediately after transfer.
The prestressed concrete beam has a rectangular

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