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To: AzNASCARfan

The equipment needed to cast this beam is quite substantial oh, it can’t be cast on site.


12 posted on 12/26/2018 11:30:09 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Was wondering that myself, but moving, much less lifting a 200’ concrete beam into place would seem like a difficult proposition too.

I always wondered what the machine looked like that they used to stress the huge bundles of tendon cables we did on the bridges, after I watching them do single cables for the house foundations and 2 guys did that with a big specialty hand held hydraulic jack to tension each of the half inch diameter cables to over 30,000 pounds of force.


16 posted on 12/26/2018 12:48:10 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: Balding_Eagle

Not arguing your point though... Article does not mention by name but I think these are AASHTO Girders, as the article says pre-stressed, not post tensioned...

FYI for anybody following along that does not know -
Pre-stressed, the cables are stressed first, and ran through the form work of the beam, then the concrete is poured, let set up and then the tension is released...
Post-Tension concrete, the cables are stressed after the concrete reaches some specific design strength.


18 posted on 12/26/2018 12:56:43 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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