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Pre-stressed Concrete May-2019

PSBTE • DIPLOMA • Cvil Engineering • 6th • May-2019

Pre-stressed Concrete is a 6th semester subject in the Punjab State Board of Technical Education Diploma in Engineering course for Civil Engineering students. On this page, students can look for subject-wise previous year question papers, old papers, and PYQ material related to this subject to support exam revision and better understand the question style, repeated topics, and exam pattern used in past papers. BRpaper is not the official website of Punjab State Board of Technical Education. It only helps students discover Pre-stressed Concrete question paper resources for practice and preparation.

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  1. The process of introducing the stresses before the application of external force to a member is known as ______
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  2. In reinforced concrete members, the pre-stress is commonly introduced by ______ the steel reinforcement.
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  3. In axially pre-stressed member, the concrete is under ______
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  4. ______ concrete is used for pre-stressing.
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  5. Pre-stressing steel is generally used in the form of individual wires of high tensile strength called ______
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  6. In pre-tensioning method ______ is induced before the concrete is placed.
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  7. ______ the wires are tensioned against hardened concrete.
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  8. The amount of force which get reduced is known as ______
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  9. Under a constant strain, there is a loss of pre-stress in steel which is called ______
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  10. ______ occur in post-tensioned member only.
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  11. Ordinary mild steel and deformed bars used in R.C.C are not used in pre-stressed concrete.
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  12. Post tensioning method can be employed for either precast or cast-in-situ member.
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  13. Pre-stressed concrete member deflect less than R.C.C member.
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  14. The loss of pre-stress in pre-tensioning method is more than post tensioning method.
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  15. Pre-stressing is economical for members of long span.
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  16. What are the advantages of pre-stressed concrete in comparison with R.C.C?
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  17. What is the basic concept of pre-stressed concrete?
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  18. Why we use pre-stressed concrete for various building element?
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  19. What is the need of high strength bars for pre-stressing system?
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  20. What do you understand by circular pre-stressing?
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  21. Discuss loss due to creep of concrete for pre-stressed member.
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  22. Discuss loss of stress due to friction.
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  23. What is the importance of shear capacity for pre-stressed member?
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  24. Why high strength concrete is used for pre-stressed member?
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  25. Explain in detail stress-strain relationship of high strength steel used for pre-stressing.
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  26. Explain in detail pretension method and post tensioned method.
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  27. How do you compute the loss of stress due to shrinkage of concrete as per IS: 1343 code recommendation?
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  28. How can you calculate resultant stress of a section by superposing the effect of pre-stress and bending stress developed due to load? Explain with neat sketches.
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  29. A concrete beam is pre-stressed by a cable carrying an initial pre-stressing force of 300 KN. The cross-sectional areas of the wires in the cables are 300 mm2. Calculate the percentage loss of stress in the cable only due to shrinkage of concrete using IS: 1343 recommendation assuming the beam to be a) pretension b) post tensioned. Assume Es=210 KN/mm2 and age of concrete at transfer = 8 days.
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