Advanced Concrete Design for Buildings

Catalog description

Advanced Concrete Design for Buildings ( AE 431 ) is the second course in reinforced concrete design that builds upon previously learned skills in reinforced concrete design and analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate systems. Successful students will gain a sufficient understanding of the theoretical basis of concrete design to be able to learn any further aspect of concrete design on their own, and a set of specific critical skills needed by a structural designer involved with reinforced concrete structures. By the end of the course, students will be able to: interpret the organization and meaning of the ACI 318; apply behavior knowledge to evaluate limit states to assess if concrete one and two way gravity and lateral systems are properly sized; execute appropriate methods for designing concrete members and systems using the strength design approach; develop skills in layout, design and evaluation of conceptual concrete system designs for a building; analyze and design reinforced concrete structures by understanding that reinforced concrete analysis and design are inextricably linked; to interpret design issues, select and conduct the required analysis, and specify a design for a particular application.