Title: Short and long term deformation and stressing of slender cylindrical concrete piers due to solar heating
Type: Postgraduate thesis
Submitted to: Imperial College, London
Date: July 2000
Language: English

This was my dissertation at the Imperial College in London. It was completed in July 2000 under the supervision of the director of post-graduate studies, professor G. L. England. 

It refers to analytic and arithmetic methods for the calculation of short and long term deformation and stressing of concrete because of time-dependent phenomena, such as creep and shrinkage. I applied these arithmetic methods in slender cylindrical concrete piers, which are deformed because of the solar heating and the continuous movement of the sun. A computer program was included, which allowed the calculation of the short term and the permanent deformation of such piers, based on custom diagrams which described the solar and concrete data. Finally, a pier was analysed as an example; the results included the short and long term deformation, the pier profile in all directions, the stresses of all elements etc after 50 years. The calculation step was 15 minutes.

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[attached software : myCreep :  executable]