Reinforced Concrete Design
Design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns and footings to CSA A23.3 with NBC loads: flexure of rectangular, T and doubly reinforced sections, deflection and crack control, shear, bond and development, one-way slabs, two-way slabs by the direct design method with punching shear, column interaction diagrams and slenderness, and spread footings, applied to a municipal operations centre.
CIV-330 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 19 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Civil Engineering
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain limit states design for reinforced concrete and compute factored design forces with the NBC load combinations and the CSA A23.3 material resistance factors.
- Select design properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, including the rectangular stress block factors, modulus of elasticity, modulus of rupture, bar sizes, cover and spacing.
- Analyse and design singly reinforced rectangular beams for flexure, applying the c/d limit for yielding and the minimum reinforcement requirement.
- Analyse and design doubly reinforced beams and T-beams using effective flange widths and strain compatibility, including compression steel that does not yield.
- Check serviceability of beams and slabs by minimum thickness, by calculated immediate and long-term deflection with the Branson effective moment of inertia, and by the crack control parameter.
- Design shear reinforcement for beams by the simplified and general methods, including minimum stirrups, spacing limits and the strut crushing limit.
- Compute development lengths for straight bars, standard hooks and compression bars, and detail bar cutoffs and tension and compression lap splices.
- Design continuous one-way slabs using moment coefficients, minimum and shrinkage reinforcement, shear checks and crack control in exposed slabs.
- Determine flat plate thickness, distribute moments by the direct design method into column and middle strips, and check punching shear and integrity reinforcement.
- Construct interaction diagrams for tied columns by strain compatibility and check columns under combined axial load and uniaxial or biaxial bending.
- Assess column slenderness in braced and sway frames, apply the moment magnifier method, and detail ties, spirals and splices.
- Design isolated spread footings for bearing, one-way and two-way shear, flexure, development and load transfer, and review a complete building design for governing limit states.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 19 min total · final exam
- 1 Concrete structures and limit states design 22 min · quiz
- 2 Materials and design properties 22 min · quiz
- 3 Flexure in singly reinforced beams 23 min · quiz
- 4 Doubly reinforced beams and T-beams 24 min · quiz
- 5 Serviceability: deflection and crack control 21 min · quiz
- 6 Shear design of beams 22 min · quiz
- 7 Bond, development length and splices 22 min · quiz
- 8 One-way slabs 20 min · quiz
- 9 Two-way slabs and the direct design method 22 min · quiz
- 10 Short columns: axial load and bending 20 min · quiz
- 11 Slender columns and column detailing 21 min · quiz
- 12 Footings and the design capstone 20 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns and footings to CSA A23.3 with NBC loads: flexure of rectangular, T and doubly reinforced sections, deflection and crack control, shear, bond and development, one-way slabs, two-way slabs by the direct design method with punching shear, column interaction diagrams and slenderness, and spread footings, applied to a municipal operations centre.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 3.