Abstract: In recent years, the needs for better designing techniques and economical achieving are motivated the engineers to do numerous researches on the pre-stressing by using external un-bonded tendons. This paper describe a details numerical modelling of pre-stressed steel structures to investigate the effect of several parameters on the structure behaviour. The main objective of the parametric study in this paper is to investigate the performance of the pre-stressed beams at service life of the structure. ANSYS software is adopted in the current study to investigate the process of building the model, applying the pre-stressing force and the structure loads. The results show that a relatively small work effort and can be made very cost effective in comparison to other strengthening methods.
Keywords: Tendon; External pre-stressing; ANSYS; Steel I-beam; Deviator.
Title: Finite Element Analysis of the Pre-Stressed Steel Structures
Author: Hazem Samih Mohamed
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
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