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We still have a lot of prestressed concrete structures that predate good understanding of creep in such structures. Box-beam highway bridges, for example, were
by ebikelaw 8y ago
We still have a lot of prestressed concrete structures that predate good understanding of creep in such structures. Box-beam highway bridges, for example, were universally built from prestressed concrete after WW2, but creep wasn't well characterized until the late 1960s.