The present invention discloses a method for designing a shield tunnel prestressed liner. Firstly, the steps of setting duct piece structure and size, selecting material, calculating load and calculating the structure internal force primarily are taken. According to the requirement of a liner structure, the prestressed liner type and prestressing strength are confirmed. A stressed reinforcement and a non-prestressed reinforcement are confirmed. Joints are calculated, and continuous uneven rigidity calculation model is confirmed. Prestressing force equivalent load is calculated and is applied to the calculation model together with the load calculated primarily to get the inner force and the
distortion of the structure. The equivalent rigidity of a joint area is calculated and compared with the prior result, if the difference is not large, the subsequent calculation is processed; otherwise iterative computation is required to be processed. The calculation of the
carrying capacity of the structure is checked, if the requirement is not met, the prestressing strength and reinforcement
assembly are required to be adjusted, and the prestressing strength is selected again and calculated. If the
carrying capacity meets the requirement, the calculation of
crack resistance and crack width and the calculation of deformation are checked, and the relative component design is carried out finally.