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PSC Design Sample Reinforcement Definition

This document provides details on entering reinforcement data for the longitudinal, shear, and torsion reinforcement of a prestressed concrete box girder bridge section. It includes the reinforcement amounts, sizes, and layout. It also describes considering the reinforcement in the structural analysis to account for its effect on creep, shrinkage, and section stiffness properties.

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PSC Design Sample Reinforcement Definition

This document provides details on entering reinforcement data for the longitudinal, shear, and torsion reinforcement of a prestressed concrete box girder bridge section. It includes the reinforcement amounts, sizes, and layout. It also describes considering the reinforcement in the structural analysis to account for its effect on creep, shrinkage, and section stiffness properties.

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ADVANCED APPLICATIONS 

Reinforcement Input
In this tutorial,
the arrangement
of
longitudinal
rebars has been
simplified
for
convenience.

Enter longitudinal reinforcement, shear reinforcement and torsion reinforcement data


of the PSC section. The reinforcement data of the PSC box is as follows.

#4

#7

#7

#4

N = 19

Fig. 9 Reinforcement in longitudinal direction

Unit: mm

The shear/torsion reinforcement data of the PSC box is as follows.


Table 1. Shear/torsion reinforcement data
Shear reinforcement

Torsion
reinforcement

Pitch

0.15 m

Angle

90

Alt

0.0015484 m2 (4-#7)

Pitch

0.15 m

Awt

0.0003871m2 (1-#7)

Alt

0.0078554m2 (62-#4)

Lets assume that the longitudinal reinforcement, shear reinforcement, and torsion
reinforcement are same throughout the bridge.
We can enter the longitudinal reinforcement and shear reinforcement data by selecting
all the elements at a time, because there is same reinforcement throughout the bridge.
Aw is the area of vertical re-bars which are placed in the web and Awt is the area of one
leg of outermost closed stirrups (Fig. 9 ) of the closed stirrups placed towards the
exterior.
Alt is the total area (Fig 9.
) of longitudinal torsion reinforcement distributed
around the perimeter of the closed stirrups.

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Prestressed Box Girder Design

Properties /
Section Manager /
Reinforcement of Section
Section List> 1:Span
Longitudinal reinforcement
1. Dia (#4), Number (35), Ref. Y (Centroid), Y (0), Ref. Z (Top), Z
(0.06), Spacing (0.25).
2. Dia (#4), Number (19), Ref. Y (Centroid), Y (0), Ref. Z (Bottom),
Z (0.06), Spacing (0.25)
Shear Reinforcement
Diagonal Reinforcement>Pitch (0.15), Angle (90), Aw (0.0015484)
Torsion Reinforcement >Pitch (0.15), Awt (0.0003871), Alt (0.0078554)

By checking on
Same Rebar Data
at (i & j) end, the
reinforcement data
of one part will be
copied to another.

Fig. 10.1 Longitudinal Reinforcement of PSC section

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ADVANCED APPLICATIONS 

Fig. 10.2 Shear Reinforcement of PSC section


Modify Construction Stage Analysis Control Data to take into account the effect of rebars in creep and shrinkage restraint. In case of a PSC section, we can consider rebars
for the calculation of section properties of PSC Box.
We are now ready to perform the structural analysis.

Consider
the
reinforcement
entered into the
PSC section for
the calculation of
section properties.
If this option is
checked off, the
reinforcement will
not be considered
for calculation of
section properties.

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Analysis /
Construction Stage Analysis Control / Time Dependent Effect
Control
Consider Re-Bar Confinement Effect (on)
Analysis /
Main Control Data
Consider Reinforcement for Section Stiffness Calculation (on)
Analysis /

Perform Analysis

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