A How Do Creep and Shrinkage Affect the Behavior of Structures?. - Differentiation Among Types of Stresses and of Action Effects According to Their Causes. - The Effects of Shrinkage. - The Effects of Creep. - Summary of the Effects of Creep and Shrinkage. - B Behavior of Materials. - General Rheological Description of the Deformation Process in Concrete. - Development of the Strength of Concrete. - Data on the Magnitude of Strain. - Prediction Methods. - Deformation Characteristics of Reinforcing and Prestressing Steels. - Comparison with Construction Site Observations. - Prospects for Future Developments. - References for Part B. - C Examples. - Brief Compilation of Formulations for an Estimate of Instantaneous and Time-Dependent Strains. - Summary of Relationships for Calculating the Consequences of Creep and Shrinkage. - Statically Indeterminate Coupling between a Flexible Steel Tension Member and a Concrete Structure. - Internally Statically Indeterminate Coupling between Bonded Reinforcement and Concrete. - Two-fold Internally Indeterminate Coupling between a Rigid Reinforcement Bonded to Concrete: Solution by the Busemann Method. - Twofold Statically Indeterminate Interaction between Two Unstressed or Prestressed Bonded Tendons and Concrete. - Redistribution Moments in Prestressed Structures which Are Supported Statically Indeterminate. Examples of Internally and Externally Statically Indeterminate Systems. - Systems with Multiple Degrees of Indeterminacy. - Reduction of Constraints which Are Imposed Through Rigid or NearRigid Supports. - Constraints Induced by Shrinkage. - Coupling of Structural Components with Different Creep and Shrinkage Properties. - Use of Step-by-Step Integration for Cases which Cannot or Only with Difficulty Be Solved in a Closed Mathematical Form. -Possible Ways of Reducing the Redistribution of Action Effects Caused by Creep. - Calculation of Deformations and Camber. - References for Part C. - APPENDIX I Further Explanations to Part B. - Modulus of Elasticity. - The Prediction Method of Rusch-Jungwirth. - Comparison of Prediction Methods for Creep. - APPENDIX II Realistic Calculation of Creep and Shrinkage Effects. - The Differential Equation According to Dischinger. - Finite Difference Methods. - The Trost Method. - The Bažant Method Based on the Effective Modulus. - The Busemann Method for Internally and Multiple Statically Indeterminate Systems. - Special Cases. - Comparison of Results Achieved with Different Methods. - Outlook. - References for Appendix II. Language: English