Precast/Prestressed Girder Help

Depressed Point Locations for Draped Strands

When using predefined strand patterns which have strands designed as draped strands, the program drapes all of the strands to a location starting at 2" from the top of the beam and then maintains the vertical spacing/distance between the strands for the other draped program based on a 12% slope of the strand (draped strands only) and the range for the depress point is limited to 0.33 to 0.4 of beam length.

Figure Illustration of strands draped in the Vertical Web Zone.