(b)Stage 2-Conditions at time of placing wet concrete on girder
For the usual case where the girder is not propped during construction the girder alone must carry its own weight of the wet concrete. At this stage, which is some time after prestress transfer, the concrete strength will have reached f’c while the prestressing force will lie between the initial force Pi and the final force, Pf. As a simplification, the prestressing force is conservatively taken as Pf . The concrete stresses at this stage can therefore be calculated as
Ft = - Pi/Ag + Pieg/Stg – (Mdg+Mds)/Stg (6-27)
Fb = - Pi/Ag - Pieg/Stg + (Mdg+Mds)/Stg (6-28)
Where Mds in the moment caused by the dead load of the wet concrete and associated fromwork. These calculated stresses must satisfy the final stress limits for the girder concrete (e.g., see Table 6-2).