The invention relates to a method for designing a prestress adjustable support for detecting and strengthening, and belongs to the field of detecting and strengthening of bridges and tunnels in
civil engineering. According to the method for designing the prestress adjustable support for the detecting and the strengthening, steel wire ropes, light high-strength
alloy materials I, adjustable prestressed steel, light high-strength
alloy materials II, anchorage devices and anchoring
steel plates are included. Through the application of prestress, the
material consumption of the lower edge of the support can be reduced so as to achieve the purpose of lowering the
self weight; due to the adjustability of the tensile force of prestressed steel bars, a working platform of the support can be economically and widely applied to bridge detecting, strengthening and maintaining tasks with various bearing requirements, the
structural deformation is reduced, and the problems of the bearing capability and the safe using of the bridge detecting support are solved fundamentally. The
self weight of the working platform of the support is lowered, meanwhile, the self rigidity and the spanning capability of the structure can be improved, the application range of the bridge detecting support can be expanded through the adjustability of the tensile force of the prestressed steel bars, and thus the working platform of the bridge detecting support can be repeatedly used.