Reinforced Concrete Design
Design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns and footings to ACI 318 with ASCE 7 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 center.
CIV-330 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 15 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Civil Engineering
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain limit states design for reinforced concrete and compute required strengths with the ASCE 7 load combinations and the ACI 318 strength reduction factors.
- Select design properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, including the Whitney stress block, modulus of elasticity, modulus of rupture, bar sizes, cover and spacing.
- Analyze and design singly reinforced rectangular beams for flexure, classifying sections by net tensile strain and applying the minimum reinforcement requirement.
- Analyze 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 Bischoff effective moment of inertia, and by bar spacing limits for crack control.
- Design shear reinforcement for beams, including minimum stirrups, spacing limits, the limit on stirrup strength and the size effect for members without stirrups.
- 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 15 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 22 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 23 min · quiz
- 8 One-way slabs 20 min · quiz
- 9 Two-way slabs and the direct design method 21 min · quiz
- 10 Short columns: axial load and bending 19 min · quiz
- 11 Slender columns and column detailing 20 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 ACI 318 with ASCE 7 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 center.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 3.