This subject course is a specialized professional course for all civil engineering students in structural engineering designed to enable the design of reinforced concrete structures with optimum utilization of post-tensioned prestressed concrete elements.
At the end of this module, engineering students should be able to:
Identify structures for which use of reinforced concrete is applicable.
Understand the properties of concrete, reinforced concrete and reinforcing steel.
Identify the reference design codes of NSCP 2015 for reinforced concrete design.
Listed below are the following modules that need to be tackled throughout the course:
Concrete
Advantages and Disadvantages of reinforced concrete
Design Codes
Properties of Concrete
Reinforcing Steel and Grades of Reinforcing Steel
Load Factors
Notations and Symbols
Rectangular Beam Reinforced in Tension Only
Balanced design/Overreinforced and Underreinforced
Balanced c and Balanced steel ratio
Steps in Solving the Design of Singly Reinforced Beam under Flexure, Design Strength and Required Steel Area
Beams under Tension and Compression
Analysis of flexural strength of T-beams
Different Stages of Concrete before collapse
Types of Shear Failure
Basic Code Requirements
Shear Strength provided by concrete
Shear Strength provided by reinforcement
Spacing Limits of Shear Reinforcement
Steps in Vertical Stirrup Design
Threshold Torsion
Calculation of Factored Torsional Moment
Torsional Moment Strength
Design For Torsion
Details of Torsional Reinforcement
Spacing of Torsion Reinforcement
Classification of Columns
Axial Load Capacity of Columns
Composite Columns
Axial Load and Bending
Plastic Centroid
Analysis of Eccentrically Loaded Columns
Eccentrically Loaded Column with Two Rows of Reinforcement
Balanced Loading Condition
Column Interaction Diagrams