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Indeed, such bridge typology has been widely explored worldwide with thousands of bridges being built since the second half of the last century. Typically, with a design lifetime of 100 years, we, as a society, will be facing during the current XXI century the end of the lifetime of several of them, meaning that the assessment, in addition to the design and construction, will become a required skill in future generations of structural engineers. In other words, the paradigm on the study of prestressed concrete bridges is being pushed to incorporate the society requirements, i.e. updating the knowledge on their effective lifetime by means of better simulations on the effective behaviour of such critical structures.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, this course aims to offer the fundamental knowledge devoted to the design, construction, and assessment requirements of prestressed concrete bridges by considering the entire lifetime. 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