CE 632 Design of Prestressed Concrete

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New Jersey Institute of Technology

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering


CE 632 - Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures Online Course Summer 2017

Text: Naaman, Antoine E., Prestressed Concrete Analysis and Design:Fundamentals, 3rd Edition,
Techno Press 3000, ISBN: 978-0-9674939-2-3
ACI 318 - 11 - Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary; PCI
Design Handbook, Precast and Prestressed Concrete - 6th Edition; Post Tensioning Manual, 6th
Referenced Text:
Edition

Instructor: Anthony Massari Email: [email protected]

Analysis and Design of pre-tensioned and post-tensioned prestressed concrete elements for
Course Description: both determinate and indeterminate structures will be studied. Examples of prestressed
elements used in buildings and bridges will be discussed, as well as the source and magnitude
of prestress losses.
Prerequisites: CE 333

Week Topics Reading

1 Introduction, Prestressing Methods, Prestressing Systems, Chapter 1


General Design Principles
2 Materials for Prestressing Chapter 2
3 The Philosophy of Design Chapter 3
4 Flexure - Working Stress Design Chapter 4
5 Flexure - Ultimate Strength Design Chapter 5
6 EXAM 1
7 Design for Shear Chapter 6
8 Servicability Design and Analysis Chapter 7
9 Computation and Types of Prestress Loses Chapter 8
10 Indeterminate Analysis Chapter 10
11 Final Exam

Basis of Grading
Homework 20%
Midterm 40%
Final Exam 40%

Notes: The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld and any violation will be brought to the immediate
attention of the Dean of Students

Homework will be assigned almost every week but will not be graded regularly. You will be on
your honor to complete the assignments. Random homework sets will be required to be
mailed to the instructor to confirm adequate progress is being made in your studies. You will
not be graded on correctness, but for honest effort in attempting the assignment to
completion. You are expected to complete all assignments to the best of your abilities. If
you show honest effort in the collected assignments, you will receive full credit.

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