It is a straightforward comprehensive key text presenting solutions to the innumerable types of problems encountered in the field of prestressed concree structures. The book lays special emphasis on conceptual clarity through the state of the art coverage of the wide spectrum of multifarious applications of prestressed concrete in constuction industry.
The book is intended to serve the needs of students, teachers, engineers and structural consultants in the civil engineering stream.

Contents:
1. Analysis of Prestress and Bending Stresses
2. Losses of Prestress
3. Deflections
4. Flexural Strength of Prestressed Concrete Sections
5. Shear and Torsional Resistance of PSC Sections
6. Anchorage Zone Stresses
7. Design of Prestressed Concrete Sections
8. Design of Pretensioned and Posttensioned Flexural Members
9. Composite Construction of prestressed and in situ Concrete
10. Statically Indeterminate Structures
11. Prestressed Concrete Pipes and Tanks
12. Prestressed Concrete Slabs and Grid Floors
13. Prestressed Concrete Shell and Folded Plate Structures
14. Prestressed Concrete Poles and Piles
15. Prestressed Concrete Bridges
Suggested Reading and References
Index

Salient Features:
Follows the latest Indian Standards and Indian Roads Congress Codes.
Distinctively covers all common types of prestressed structures.
Also covers special topics like pipes, tanks, poles, piles, grids and shells.
Includes new topics of continuous and box girder bridges.
Gives numerous analysis and design problems with key solutions.
Incorporates a rich pool of references at the end of the book.