Course Details

1. Form the design philosophy for all the elements of a typical concrete structure.
2. Understand the behavior of reinforced concrete at different levels: material level, element level and structural level.
3. Evaluate methods of designing concrete structural elements including continuous beams, slabs, shear walls and columns.
4. Employ the strut and tie method for the design of simple concrete structures.
5. Employ an analysis system for the determination of stress and deformation in a reinforced concrete structure.
6. Employ FRP and UHPFRCC composites for repairing and strengthening of reinforced concrete structures.

Introduction: revision of design for bending and combined bending and axial force, Eurocode 2.

Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete at material level: Micro-Cracking Mechanism, Multi-Axial Loading Responses,             Failure Theories, Plasticity, Fracture.

Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete at element level: Creep and Shrinkage, Ductility, Failure Modes.

Shear and torsion:fundamental behaviour, torsion and shear combined with bending.

Continuous beams: design and behaviour, deflections, Biaxial Bending of Beam.

Slabs: Yield line and Hillerborg strip methods for design of slabs.

Shear walls: behaviour and design.

Slender columns: behaviour/buckling of intermediate and slender columns, design of slender columns and unbraced frames.

Detailing: Design of beam-column joints.

Strut and tie methods:Bernoulli hypothesis, St Venant’s Principle, beam and discontinuity regions, examples.

Analysis:discretisation, material modelling and finite element analysis of reinforced concrete structures.

Repairing and Strengthening: Use of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP) and Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Composites in Repair and Strengthening.

• “Reinforced Concrete Design: to Eurocode 2” W.H. Mosley, Ray Hulse, J.H Bungey
• “Reinforced Concrete: Design Theory and Examples”, Third Edition, P. Bhatt, T.J. MacGinley and Ban Seng Choo

• “Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures”.

The course will be presented through theoretical lectures in class. The lectures will present to the student the course content and allow for questions. Part of the material will be presented using visual aids. Lecture notes, project assignments, practice questions, feedback and additional material such as site videos and photographs will be available to students at any time on the e-learning Moodle platform. The learning process will be enhanced with the requirement from the student to solve exercises. These include self-evaluation exercises which will be solved in class. These exercises will not be graded. Design projects will be given as part of their assessment. The instructor will be available to students during office hours or by appointment in order to provide any additional tutoring.