Concrete Structures: Stresses and Deformations - Hardcover

Ghali, Amin; Favre, R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041917740X ISBN 13: 9780419177401

Publisher: CRC Press, 1994

Synopsis

Concrete structures must be designed both to be safe against failure and to perform satisfactorily in use. This book is written for practising engineers, students and designers and concentrates on design methods for checking the main serviceability requirements of control of deflections and cracking in reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.

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Review

'This graduate level textbook is strongly recommended for practicing civil engineers and university level engineering libraries. The second edition of this work (1994) is widely held by academic libraries and there is sufficient new content in the third edition to warrant purchasing a copy of this newly revised title.' - www.e-streams.com

'This book would be extremely useful to civil engineering students, researchers and practicising engineers, especially those who are involved with statically indeterminate prestressed and composite structures.' - The Structural Engineer

Synopsis

Concrete structures must be designed both to be safe against failure and to perform satisfactorily in use. This book is written for practising engineers, students and designers, and concentrates on design methods for checking the main serviceability requirements of control of deflections and cracking in reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. The authors present accurate and easy-to-apply methods of analysing and predicting long-term stresses and deformations. These methods allow designers to account for variations of concrete performance from project to project and from country to country, making the book universally applicable. This second edition includes new sections, a new chapter on control of cracking and examples at the end of every chapter worked out in British (Imperial) units. Many other examples are SI units, and the input data and main results are given in both units for ease of use by readers in all countries. The latest American and European codes of practice are covered in the appendices but the main part of the book is not tied to any specific code. Many design aids in the form of graphs and tables are included.

New appendices deal with mechanical properties of concrete, crack width and crack spacing and are applicable to high-strength concrete.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041917740X
• ISBN 13: 9780419177401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420