Abstract

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de um estudo sobre as perdas de protensão, medidas "in loco", de cordoalhas engraxadas em lajes planas. Essas lajes planas, com 17 centímetros de espessura e 350 m2 de área, fazem parte de um edifício para fins hoteleiros de 16 pavimentos. As forças de protensão foram medidas por células de carga colocadas nas proximidades da ancoragem ativa e da ancoragem passiva. As medidas de forças foram feitas desde a protensão até idades de 170 dias após esse instante. Os resultados revelam um coeficiente de atrito μ igual a 0,0528 bastante próximo ao valor apresentado pela norma brasileira NBR 6118: 0,05. Nas perdas pela acomodação da ancoragem os valores apurados foram bastante similares e em termos médios, essa perda correspondeu a 5,17% da força inicial de protensão. Os valores de força medidos mostram também que a perda de tensão na cordoalha, próximo à ancoragem passiva, é menor em relação à perda na ancoragem ativa. Até a idade de 170 dias, verificou-se uma perda média de 14% da força inicial de protensão.

Highlights

  • Buildings with post-tensioning flat slabs with unbonded tendons are designed and built in the United States since 1950’s

  • The main goal of this paper is to present the test results of a study, accomplished by Soares [2], of the post-tensioning stress losses, measured “in situ”, on unbonded tendons in flat slabs

  • For the analysis of the stress losses in the tendons, a hotel building under construction in the city of Belo Horizonte was chosen

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Summary

Introduction

Buildings with post-tensioning flat slabs with unbonded tendons are designed and built in the United States since 1950’s. The post-tensioning procedure constitutes a kind of load test for these slabs In this scenario, the main goal of this paper is to present the test results of a study, accomplished by Soares [2], of the post-tensioning stress losses, measured “in situ”, on unbonded tendons in flat slabs. The main goal of this paper is to present the test results of a study, accomplished by Soares [2], of the post-tensioning stress losses, measured “in situ”, on unbonded tendons in flat slabs These slabs are part of a hotel building, under construction, in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Characteristics of the flat slabs
Concrete
Unbonded tendons
Tendon force measuring devices and procedures
Immediate stress losses due to friction
Immediate losses due to anchoring the tendons
Time dependent losses
Findings
Conclusions

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