CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CE 441 Reinforced Concrete Design
Fall 2007
Instructor:
Dr. Levon Minnetyan
140A Rowley Laboratories
Tel: 268-7741; E-mail: Levon@clarkson.edu
Office Hours:
9:30 – 10:30 daily, or stop in if my office door is open,
or make an appointment.
Lecture:
Tu, Th 8:00 – 9:15 Science Center Lecture Room 160
Code (required): ACI 318-05 with Commentary. ACI will sell us the codebook at a discounted
price of approximately $60 including shipping. It will be available by August 28,
2007 from the CEE Office in Rowley 140. Checks to purchase the ACI-318-05
code should be made payable to Clarkson University.
Recommended Text (optional): Wang, C-K, Salmon, C.G., and Pinchera, J.A., Reinforced
Concrete Design, 7th Edition, John Wiley And Sons, Inc, 2007.
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References: McGregor, J.G., and Wight, J.K., Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design, 4
Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
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Nilson, A.H., Darwin, D., and Dolan, C.W., Design of Concrete Structures, 13
Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Prerequisites:
CE 320 or consent of instructor
Catalog Description: CE 441 covers the investigation and design of reinforced structural elements
such as beams, slabs, columns and footings to meet ACI 318 code
requirements. (3 credits of design)
Course Objectives:
To make students aware of the principles involved in structural
concrete design methods.
To enable students to use fundamental principles of mechanics
for the development and applications of reinforced concrete
design.
To introduce modern computational methods and software for the
analysis and design of concrete structures.
To prepare teams of students to apply the principles learned in the
course to the design of practical concrete structures.
CEE Outcomes
addressed
1c, 3c
Evaluation
Methods
1, 2, 3, 4
1a, 1c, 1d
1, 4
1e, 1f
3, 5
1g, 2a
4, 5
Evaluation Methods:
1. Exams
(2 @ 25 points each)
2. Final Exam
3. Homework
4. Workshops
5. Project
50
50%
25
25%
12
12%
8
8%
5
5%
100 total points
CE 441 – Reinforced Concrete Design
Schedule of Topics (subject to minor changes throughout the semester)
August 28– 30
Introduction
Structural Concrete and Design loads
Review of Inelastic Beam analysis from Strength of Materials
Material properties of concrete and reinforcing steel
Temperature, shrinkage, and creep effects on concrete
Sept 4 – 6
Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Tension Steel
Actual Stresses and rectangular stress block assumption
Balanced steel ratio
Load carrying capacity of beams
Sept 11– 13
Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Tension Steel
Design procedure and design equation
Determination of reinforced concrete beam design parameters
T-beams and beams with other shapes
Sept 18 – 20
Analysis and Design of Beams with Compression Steel
Use of compression steel
Load capacity of beams with compression steel
T-beams with compression steel
Sept 25
Sept 27
Review of Beam Analysis and Design
Exam 1
Oct 4
Computer codes for the analysis and design of concrete beams
Oct 9-11
Design of Floor Systems
Load transmission from slabs to beams, girders, columns
One way slabs and T-beams
Formation of Design Teams and Design Project Assignments
Oct 16 – 18
Elastic Analysis of Beams
Transformed area of sections
Cracking moment
Sections with compression steel
Oct 23 – 25
Deflection and Control of Cracking
Instantaneous and long term deflections
Cracks in flexural members
Oct 30 – Nov 1
Shear strength and shear reinforcement of beams
Shear forces in beams
Design of shear reinforcement
Nov 6
Nov 8
Review for Exam 2
Exam 2
Nov 13 – 15
Development Length and Anchorage of Reinforcement Bars
Positive and negative moment cutoff points
Nov 20
Axially Loaded Columns and Beam-Columns
Load-Moment interaction diagrams
Presentations of Design Teams
Nov 27 – 29
Analysis and Design of Beam-Columns
Design of sections using interaction diagrams
Balanced condition
Tension or compression controlled designs
Dec 4 – 6
Beam-Columns (continued)
Load capacity of circular columns
Review for Final Exam
Dec 10 – 14
Final Exam
Examination policy:
The two scheduled exams will be given during class on Thursday mornings 7:30-9:15.
There will be no individual make-up exams. Unexcused absences will result in a zero
grade. Excused exams will increase the weight of remaining exam and Final exam.
Exams will be closed textbook and closed notes. Only the ACI 318-05 code and a not
photocopied sheet of personal notes without design examples will be allowed during
examinations.