Abstract: It is hypothesized that heating/cooling cycles of concrete lead to internal stresses and subsequent microcracking as a consequence of incompatible coefficients of thermal expansion of aggregate and paste. This phenomenon ...

Abstract: Iterative one‐step, iterative step‐by‐step, and noniterative step‐by‐step approaches for calculating prestress losses due to shrinkage, creep, and steel relaxation for partially prestressed, continuous concrete/steel ...