Concrete and reinforced concrete, RC structural systems. Concrete strength in compression and tension, creep and shrinkage, reinforcing steel, grades, bar sizes and strength. Design codes and specifications, loads and factors, design methods, safety provisions of the ACI Code. Flexural analysis and design of beams, its behavior, nominal flexural Moments, types of RC beam Failure, balanced, tension-controlled, and compression-controlled sections, minimum Percentage of steel, singly reinforced rectangular beams. Doubly reinforced rectangular beams. T-section beams. Shear in beams, design for shear, ACI requirements. One way slabs. Reinforced Concrete joist construction. Columns, types, behavior, design of axially loaded columns. Footings, types, actual and allowable soil pressures, design of isolated footings. |
- Teacher: Sufian Al-turk