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A Review on Precast Concrete Construction

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Precast concrete construction (PC) is the present trend of building structures that is infrastructure development in many advanced countries of the world. In India too, it is being practiced, but at a slow pace and has to be speeded up for the country’s requirements. Certainly it is an advancement and a necessity in the field. Building a structure by this method can be of two ways: structure as a whole or segmental for size and weight constraints. In segmental construction, the component elements are required to be connected on site. Thereby connection designs have a vital role to play and govern the execution for reality, especially in seismic considerations. There is a lot of research work done already and still going on how best a specific aspect or a specific component could function and on what aspects further investigation is necessary. In this scenario, awareness on the subject and its wide applicability among the student community, faculty, construction agencies and lastly the upcoming entrepreneurs in the field is vital. This review is an attempt to come up with the wide applicability and practice of precast concrete construction, in a nutshell by collecting the available literature and the related research work done subject to accessibility and finally the scope for its further development/research for its rapid growth.

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    Harika Madireddy, Sivakumar Naganathan & B. Mahalingam

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    Kamal Nasharuddin Mustapha

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India

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Madireddy, H., Naganathan, S., Mahalingam, B. (2022). A Review on Precast Concrete Construction. In: Naganathan, S., Mustapha, K.N., Palanisamy, T. (eds) Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 179. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5041-3_7

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