Authors' response

摘要

The authors would like to thank Jose Marti-Vargas for sharing his experience about the distribution of the prestress force transferred along the transfer length L_1. The authors agree with Marti-Vargas regarding the variety of the assumptions and test results corresponding to the stress path along the transfer length. This is because the transfer length is a multiparameter phenomenon affected by many factors, such as strand surface conditions, interlocking between the strands and concrete, adhesion at the interface between strands and concrete, and confinement.