Base Knowledge
Engineering Mechanics
Strenght of Materials
Therory of Structures.
Teaching Methodologies
Pedagogical methods: lectures, critical judgement, exercices and problems, case studies, collaborative work, student?centred teaching that encourages students and lecturers. Students are encouraged to spend a fair amount of time in small groups in which they talk, think and work together.
Learning Results
This course aims to give basics of reinforced concrete structures analysis, design and detailing.
Application of knowledge and understanding; Judgment accomplishment and decision making; Communication; Self-learning.
To understand the behaviour of structural members to resist bending, shear, tension and compression and apply the relevant codes of practice; To understand the behaviour and undertake the design of connections. To appreciate the process of arranging members in a structurally efficient way to transfer design loads; To demonstrate the ability to analyse the behaviour of structural members and undertake design at both serviceability and ultimate limit states; To produce design calculations and drawings in appropriate professional formats.
Program
Chapter 1 – Introduction. The concept of RC. The history of concrete construction; Portland cement; Special types of concrete.
Chapter 2 – Principles of Structural Safety. Structural Safety. Evolution; philosophy; concepts and uncertainties. Standards, regulatory texts and their evolution. Eurocodes: general concept; actions, action combinations: material properties. The frame of concrete industry standards and regulations.
Materials properties: concrete and reinforcing steels. Time effects: concrete creep and shrinkage; basics and approximated determination methods.
Reinforcing steel bars (rebars) and concrete: rebar surface and resistant characteristics. Bond: rebar bond anchorage and overlapping. Rebar bending inside concrete. Durability of steel and concrete.
Chapter 3 – The Ultimate Limit State (ULS) approach for the design of concrete sections. Axial, bending and shear failure of concrete sections: basic assumptions; conventional failures; stress-strain relationships.
Chapter 4 –
Internship(s)
NAO