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Concrete beams with prestressed and nonprestressed fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcements are commonly employed in field applications. However, available flexural strength design approaches mainly focus on rectangular concrete beams exclusively prestressed with FRP tendons. This paper, therefore, presents a simplified yet rational design approach for flexural capacity of concrete T-beams with bonded prestressed and nonprestressed FRP reinforcements. Firstly, a new transition region between tension- and compression- controlled sections was proposed in terms of ratio of provided-to-balanced reinforcement (ρ_e,b < ρ_e ≤ 1.5ρ_e,b) based on a statistical analysis of an experimental database of 83 beams. Afterwards, numerical sectional analysis procedure of tension-controlled sections was developed by using an accurate stress block to approximate the nonlinear compressive stress distribution …