Prestressing Optimization and Its Implications for Design

Multi-objective reliability-based optimization of prestressed concrete beams

“…The early work of Namman et al [36], Cohn et al [37][38][39], Khaleel et al [40], and the subsequent development by Al-Harthy and Frangopol [14,41,42], among others, provided basic approaches for the design of PC structures. Some of these design approaches are deterministic in nature, while the remaining probabilistic-based approaches did not consider all the behavior and side constraints involved in the analysis and the design of PC structures.…”