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The goal of the splice girder research project 0-6652 funded by the Texas Department of Transportation is to utilize the full potential of splicing prestressed TX girders continuously. The TX girder family of beams is cost effective alone due to their simple, repetitive fabrication, but to truly optimize their potential would be to span several beams together as one continuous unit. The weight and length restrictions allowed by trucks or barges limit the prestressed beam lengths. Therefore, splicing together prestressed beams becomes the solution to the transporting obstacle. As a result, the prestressed girders will be more competitive to other bridge types such as steel I-girders, steel trapezoidal girders, cable-stayed bridges, and concrete segmental bridges. In fact, a prestressed/post-tensioned concrete bridge is preferred over steel designs in highly corrosive environments such as the coast or in snow regions where de-icing chemicals are used. In comparison, to a segmental box girder bridge, the post-tensioned prestressed bridge has reduced complexity due to fewer segments and the number of reduced joints susceptible to corrosion. The issue that arises with splicing prestressed beams is that in the process of connecting them together an opening must be made to install the post-tensioning (PT) steel strands. The openings are created by installing several steel or plastic circular ducts into the web region. Since the post-tensioning results in a reduction of the concrete web region, a modification is necessary to the shear capacity equation. The experimental study performed at the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory consisted of fabricating and testing two full-scale prestressed Tx46 girders. One girder contained a plastic post-tensioning duct with grout and steel strands installed in the web region. The other beam was a standard Tx46 beam fabricated without a duct. Both beams had a reinforced concrete deck installed with an overhang to model an actual bridge section. Furthermore, the purpose of the standard beam was to serve as a direct comparison to the beam with a duct and determine the actual reduction in shear capacity. The research and findings will include the impact of the plastic duct in the Tx46 compared to the control beam. The failure loads of the test specimens will be compared to the current 2012 AASHTO code predictions for shear design. Also, revisions to the AASHTO code will be recommended if necessary. The primary goal of this research was to improve the design and detailing of the skewed end-blocks commonly used in these beams. As U-beams had been in service for several decades without incident, it was anticipated that there would be little need for change in the design, and the findings of the research would involve a slight tweaking to improve the overall performance. / text

The main work of the diploma thesis is a draft and a static judgement of chosen horizontal and vertical parts of prefab hall with a crane runway. The chosen parts are the girder, the column, the bracing, the foundation beam, and the foundation pad. The model for gathering of intern forces is made by the program SCIA Engineer 18.1 with the use of a bar 3D model of the whole project. The parts were judged on the ultimate limit state. The prestressed girder was judged on the ultimate limit state and the serviceability limit state.

Prestressed concrete is a popular construction material for highway bridges. A variety of girder span values, cross-sectional shapes, and prestressing strand layouts has been used in bridges across the United States. A major concern for such bridges is the possibility of corrosion damage in the prestressing strands or reinforcing bars, which is commonly caused by the use of deicing salts on the deck or saltwater spray in coastal regions. The present study aims at establishing analytical tools for the accurate simulation of chloride ingress, corrosion and mechanical damage (cracking) in the concrete, and for the evaluation of the impact of corrosion on the flexural and shear strength of bridge girders. First, an efficient and accurate analytical scheme is formulated to enable the calculation of the load-carrying capacity of corrosion-damaged girders. The analyses rely on two types of models, namely, beam models and nonlinear truss models. The latter are deemed necessary to obtain reliable estimates of the shear capacity, as beam models are not well-tailored for capturing shear failures. A procedure to account for the reduction in area and deformability of corroded strands, based on visually observed corrosion damage, is proposed and implemented. The models are calibrated and validated with the results of experimental tests on prestressed girders which exhibited varying levels of corrosion damage. Further analyses allow the comparison of the capacity of corrosion-damaged girders to that of their undamaged counterparts. The accuracy of a simplified procedure, using equations in the AASHTO code to determine the flexural and shear capacity of the damaged girders, is also determined. Subsequently, a computation scheme was proposed to describe the intrusion of chloride ions in prestressed bridge girder sections. The approach accounts for multiple, coupled processes, i.e., heat transfer, moisture transport, and chloride advective and diffusive transport. The constitutive models for moisture and chloride transport rely on previous pertinent work, with several necessary enhancements. The modeling scheme is calibrated with data from previous experimental tests on concrete cylindrical and prismatic specimens. The calibrated models are then validated using data from chloride titration tests conducted on girders removed from two bridges in Virginia after 34 and 49 years of service. The results indicate that the proposed framework can accurately reproduce the experimentally measured chloride content. The modeling approach also allows the evaluation of the accuracy of simplified, design-oriented tools for estimating the evolution of chloride content with time. The multi-physics simulation scheme is further refined to account for the corrosion-induced mechanical damage (cracking), by incorporating a phenomenological description of the electrochemical reaction kinetics, generation of expansive corrosion products, and subsequent development of tensile stresses and cracking in the surrounding concrete. The impact of cracking on the chloride and moisture transport mechanisms is also taken into account. The last part of this dissertation pursues the quantification of the uncertainty governing the chloride ingress in bridge girders, through the use of a stochastic collocation approach. The focus is on understanding how the inherent uncertainty in the value of input parameters (e.g., material transport parameters, ambient conditions etc.) is propagated, leading to uncertainty in the evolution of chloride content and the expected corrosion initiation time for a given bridge. / Doctor of Philosophy / Prestressed concrete is widely utilized in the construction of highway bridges in the United States. A significant concern arises regarding potential corrosion damage in the prestressing strands or reinforcing bars, which is commonly attributed to the application of deicing salts on the deck or exposure to saltwater spray in coastal regions. This study aims to develop analytical tools that can accurately simulate the intrusion of corrosive agents (namely chloride ions), and subsequent damage (cracking) in concrete. Furthermore, the research seeks to assess the impact of corrosion on the bearing capacity of bridge girders. Two different classes of analytical approaches are pursued. The first class employs purely mechanical (stress/deformation) models for capturing the strength, deformability and failure modes of girders with visual corrosion damage. These models rely on two approaches to capture the flexural and shear capacity of specimens, namely, beam-based models and truss-based models. The impact of corrosion is established through appropriate modification of the model parameters, based on the extent of visually observed corrosion damage. The analytical approaches are validated through a series of experimental tests previously conducted on corrosion-damaged girders. The second class of analytical approaches employs multi-physics models, to describe the mechanisms leading to corrosion-induced damage. The models account for heat transfer, moisture transport, and chloride transport in prestressed beam sections. Model parameters are calibrated with experimental tests in literature. The computational scheme is used to quantitatively describe the chloride ingress on bridge girders decommissioned from two different bridges in Virginia, after 34 and 49 years of service. The analysis results are found capable of capturing the actual chloride content at various depths from the exposure surface, as determined by chloride titration tests. The temporal evolution of chloride on the surface of prestressing strands indicates that corrosion has been taking place over a period of time for the two bridges. The multi-physics simulation approach is further enhanced to account for the corrosion-induced mechanical damage (cracking), by explicitly incorporating a description of the reaction kinetics, generation of expansive corrosion products and subsequent development of cracking in the surrounding concrete. The last part of this dissertation pursues the quantification of the uncertainty in the expected service life of prestressed concrete bridge structures. Given the inherent uncertainty to key values of model parameters, a parametric study is employed to investigate the propagation of uncertainty to the time history of chloride content at particular locations of the section and the probability of corrosion initiation at specific age values.

Aim of the final thesis is to create loadbearing prefabricated structure of building, which serve like office building and area for car-showroom, and creating static assessment of main supporting parts. For those parts will make drawing documentation of reinforcement and shapes. Computational 3D model for evaluation of internal forces is realized in Dlubal RFEM 5.07 software. For better check and comparison were create 2D spatial bar models of selected frames.

This thesis covers brand new detached showroom with one basement and two floors. The building is divided into 2 parts, the major part of the first floor sample room (showroom) for a maximum of 13 vehicles, offices and staff facilities salon. On the second floor is located the finance department and exemplary service area. In the basement of this building are public parking garage for 16 vehicles and car accessories stores. The second part of the new building is just overhead. It consists of a private car service for 5 vehicles, stock tires, utility room, car wash and storage of spare parts for cars. Flat roof supporting structure is made of pre-stressed girders reinforced with cross reinforced concrete slab with insulation. Cladding are ventilated insulated facade, supporting part is reinforced. The showroom form the majority of the building envelope glass facade. Finish of floors in office and showroom premises are ceramic tiles. In the Service and garages cast floor resistant to petroleum substances.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the structural design of a railway bridge over river Dyje based on materials given by my supervisor. The tied arch bridge with prestressed concrete girder is chosen for the structural check. The structural assesment is focused on prestressed concrete girder and basic calculations are made to check steel arch and hangers as well. Eigenvalue analysis provides dynamic properties of this structure. Appendices contain Structural design report, drawings including Construction stages scheme and visualization. For structural analysis Midas Civil software was used. Other used softwares for visualization, and outputs etc are: Lumion12, IdeaStatica, Microsoft excel and Autocad

The diploma thesis is focused on the design and review of selected load-bearing elements of the precast hall. Girder is dimensioned in two variants: reinforced and prestressed concrete. Design and assessment of prestressed girder was carried out using the simplified method and the IDEA statica. Column and footing was also dimensioned. All calculations are done in accordance with Eurocode 2.

The final thesis is focused on the design and assessement of precast structure of industrial hall – with purlin, prestressed girder, columns, grade beam, pile cap and pile. Structural analysis was performed by SCIA Engineer 2015 and hand calculations.

The subject of this thesis was to develop project documentation for building construction. It is a new four-storey house with restaurant, situated on the outskirts of the village Bridges at Jablunkova. The building is brick, has a two-level gable and shed roof, consisting of wood roof system. Slope of the parcel on which the house is located, allows the building of the plant into the ground. Because of this it is possible to enter it, either the main entrance to the first floor or building around and over the summer terrace come directly to the restaurant on the second floor. Above it are two more floors for hotel guests only, a total of 10 accommodation units with its own bathroom.