Strut and Tiemodelling of Reinforced Concrete Pilecaps





Preface

This Master’s thesis has been written within the Master’s program Structural Engineering and Building Performance Design, in Chalmers University of Technology. The work was carried out at Skanska Teknik in Gothenburg between January and June 2010.

During our studies at Chalmers, we both attended two courses about concrete structures that were especially enriching and surely motivated us towards the choice of the subject.

We are grateful to Dr. Per-Ola Svahn, our supervisor at Skanska, who gave us the opportunity to undertake this thesis work in a good working environment at Skanska Teknik. We want to thank you sincerely for the time and for the relevant guidance you gave us all along the thesis.

We would like to present our most sincere acknowledgment to our supervisors at Chalmers, Dr. Rasmus Rempling and Dr. Björn Engström, who was also the examiner. Thank you for your interest in our work and for the support you gave us throughout the thesis period.

We also would like to deeply thank Dr. Per Kettil. The outcome of this thesis work would not have been the same without your daily support and the bright advice you gave us.

We also would like to thank our opponents Markus Härenstam and Rickard Augustsson for their feedback on our work.

We appreciated and would like to thank Dr. Rafael Souza and Dr. Karl-Heinz Reineck for the documents they let at our disposal.


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