- Author
- Gales, J. | Bisby, L. | MacDougall, C.
- Title
- Irrecoverable Prestress Loss in Unbonded Post-Tensioned Conrete Slabs in Fire.
- Coporate
- Queen's Univ., Canada Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
- Book or Conf
- Fire and Materials 2009. 11th International Conference. Conference Papers. Proceedings. Organised by Interscience Communications Limited. January 26-28, 2009, Interscience Communications Limited, London, England, San Francisco, CA, 437-448 p., 2009
- Keywords
- concrete slabs | methodology | experiments | equations | beams | high temperature | stress (mechanics) | creep tests | heating | cooling | fire resistance
- Identifiers
- Unbonded Post-Tensioned (UPT) flat plate concrete slabs; unbonded (but restrained and stressed) prestressing tendon; stress variation in a restrained prestressing tendon; locally-heated tendons; changes in tendon stress (prestress loss); equations invoked in the transient high temperature creep (relaxation) model; loss of strength at high temperature