Description
The course presents the mechanics and limit states design procedures of reinforced concrete members such as solid slabs, beams, and columns. It focuses on member design strategy by including practical and code considerations related to development and detailing of reinforcement and member sizing. This is the first course of a sequence of courses about reinforced concrete design. It requires good knowledge and skills of the structural analysis methods for determinate and indeterminate structures, as well as the structural mechanics concepts related to the determination of stresses and stresses, and the calculations of internal forces as stress resultants. It provides the students with practical analysis and design tools that are currently used by the design codes for reinforced concrete structures, and permits them to improve their design skills by providing detailed calculation notebook for practical problems. The course contributes to the knowledge and skills required by the civil engineers in the following topics of engineering science and design: Philosophy of structural design using RC codes and the concepts of demand and capacity in RC design; Limit states design method; Structural loads and ultimate load combinations; Mechanics and design of short columns; Ultimate strength design of RC one-way and two-way solid slabs; Load path and tributary areas of floor slabs; Ultimate strength design of singly- and doubly RC beams for bending (R-, T-, L-sections); Ultimate strength design of RC beams for shear; Cracking moment, moment of inertia, and ultimate bending-moment capacity of RC sections; Typical RFT Detailing of RC Beams.