Applied Science University
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Course:
Course Number:
Instructor:
Credit Hours:
Reinforced Concrete Design (2)
0805426
Dr. Ma’en Abdel-Jaber
4
Textbook:
1.
Reinforced concrete Design
By Kenneth Leet
Third Edition, McGraw Hill, 1997.
2.
Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete
and Commentary (ACI-318-95)
American Concrete Institute, 1995.
Objectives:
1. To enable the student to develop moment/load interaction diagrams and use them
to design short columns and to use the magnification procedure to design long
columns.
2. To enable the student to compute the effects of slenderness in column design.
3. To enable the student to design two-way solid slabs and ribbed slabs.
4. To enable the student to design single and combined footings.
Grades:
Homework
Exam 1
Exam 2
Final Exam
Total
10%
20%
20%
50%
100%
Course Outline:
1
Design of columns:
Fundamentals of Column Behavior, Braced and Unbraced Frames, Effective
Length Factors for Columns of Rigid Frames, The ACI Procedure for classifying
Beam-Columns, Strength of Short Axially Loaded Columns, Plastic Centroid,
Strength of Short Column for Axial Load and Moment, Design Procedure for a
Short Column, Design of Long Columns, Biaxial Bending.
2
Footing Design:
Types of Foundations, Soil Pressures, Design of Footings for Vertical load,
Design of a Wall Footing with a Uniform Load, Design of an Axially Loaded
Two-Way Footing, Design of a Combined Footing for Two Columns
3
Design of Two-Way Slabs:
Forces in Two-Way Slabs, Midspan Moment in a Rectangular Slab Supported at
the Corners, Subdividing a Building into Two-Dimensional Frames, The
Equivalent Column, Minimum Thickness of Two-Way Slabs to Control
Deflection, Analysis of Two-Way Slabs: Direct Design Method, Equivalent
Frame Method, Transfer of the Floor Load into Columns, Shearhead
Reinforcement, Openings in Slabs.
4
Torsion and Introduction to Yield Line Analysis
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Course Project (An additional teaching hour is required in order to give tutorial
examples and to design a reinforced concrete building with all structural
elements)
References:
1.
Design of Reinforced Concrete
by Jack C. McCormac, Third Edition, Harper Collins, 1993.
2.
Reinforced Concrete: A Fundamental Approach
by Edward G. Nawy, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1996.
3.
Reinforced Concrete Fundamentals
by Phil M. Ferguson, John E. Breen and James O. Jirsa
Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1988.
4.
Design of Concrete Structures
by Arthur H. Nilson and George Winter, Eleventh Edition, McGraw Hill, 1991.