Title: Connections Between Precast Beam to Column Members
Date: August, 1963
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Page number: 63-76
Author(s): William J. Elliston, Jr.
https://doi.org/10.15554/pcij.08011963.63.76

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Abstract

One of the most useful characteristics of a precast concrete structure is that it may be designed to act in virtually any manner the designer wishes. A precast structure is composed of individual pieces, but  they may be connected by any number of different methods. These connections determine the type of action developed in the members and in the structure as a whole. Actually, it is the connections that determine whether the structure will act as a unit, or as a series of separate members.