PGSplice  3.0
Precast-prestressed Spliced Girder Bridges
Epoxy Coated Strands

Grit impregnated epoxy coated strands may be modeled. The recommendatons presented in "Guidelines for the use of Epoxy-Coated Strand", PCI Journal, July-August 1993 are used for transfer length and relaxation losses.

Transfer Length

The recommended transfer length is 50db.

Relaxation

Relaxation of epoxy coated strands is taken to be double that of uncoated strands.