Applications

To ensure serviceability of structural members, an accurate survey of the existing stress can be required so that appropriate remediate solutions can be engineered. In concrete, complex states of stress are difficult to estimate accurately through calculations and models. The exact state of stress can only be determined through direct measurements on the structure.

Slotstress can be used to estimate:

• the stress distribution in any RC/PC structure (bridge girder, pier, building column, slab, tunnel, arch…),
• the actual prestressing force in a PC structural member,
• the load capacity,
• effects of creep, shrinkage, relaxation.