Textbook
Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design, J. K. Wight, 8th ed., Pearson, 2022.
Optional Texts
- ACI 318-19(22) Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary, American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 318, 2022.
- Design of Concrete Structures, D. Darwin, C. W. Dolan and A. H. Nilson, 16th ed., McGraw Hill, 2020.
- Nonlinear Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete, Maekawa, K., Okamura, H. and Pimanmas, A., CRC Press, 2003.
- Reinforced Concrete Structures, R. Park and T. Paulay, Jonh Wiley & Sons, 1975.
- Mechanical Behavior of Materials, N. M. Dowling, 4th ed., Pearson, 2013.
Prerequisites
Undergraduate course on concrete design or any graduate course on concrete.
Course Objectives and Emphasis
The primary goal of this course is to enrich and expand the knowledge and understanding of the behavior, analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures. This course builds on basic concrete design learned in the undergraduate concrete design course and discusses in depth the material behavior of unconfined and confined concrete with and without reinforcement, flexural analysis of beams, flexure-normal force interaction in beam-columns, shear and torsion, structural walls, disturbed regions/connections, and nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete systems. The course will be a balance between behavior, analysis and design and will often refer to American Concrete Institute’s Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete. The constitutive modeling of plain and reinforced concrete and modeling of reinforced concrete elements and frames using various software will be taught.
Computer Programs
Most of the material will be in PDF or will require a Microsoft Office application to open. Students will need to write computer scripts for various assignments. Although the selection of the computer language is up to the students to choose, Matlab is highly encouraged. Use of Matlab will allow the instructor and the TAs help students in coding their assignments. Additionally, the students will be taught using various reinforced concrete structural analysis tools including RESPONSE 2000, MEMBRANE 2000, ZEUS NL, ETABS, SAP 2000, Abaqus and ATENA 3D. How to access these computer programs will be communicated to the students during the semester.
Course Outline
- RC history, RC design philosophy
- Concrete and reinforcing steel material behavior and constitutive modeling
- Flexural analysis of RC beams: moment-curvature relationships
- Beam-columns
- Shear behavior of RC members
- Shear and torsional design of RC members
- Analysis and design of RC walls
- Behavior and design of disturbed regions
- Nonlinear behavior of RC systems: pushover analysis
- Seismic load calculations (if time permits)
- Principles of seismic detailing in RC (if time permits)