
Delve into reinforced concrete design basics, covering concrete–steel composite, workability and slump tests, strength, durability, creep, shrinkage, unit weight, modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio, thermal expansion, and the ACI code.
Explore the concrete compressive strength f'c, determined by a uniaxial compression test on cylinders after 28 days of curing, and explain how reinforcement steel supplies tensile strength.
Analyze concrete and steel stress–strain diagrams, including FC' compressive strength, elastic and crushing stages for concrete, steel yielding and hardening to ultimate capacity, and ACI-based modulus and tensile strength calculations.
Explore reinforced concrete design with steel rebars, yield strengths from 280 to 700 MPa for grades 40 to 100, and how to compute bar area and weight per meter.
Define the concrete clear cover as the spacing from reinforcement to the outer edge, protecting steel from corrosion and fire according to ACI minimums based on bar diameter and aggregate.
Explain the load transfer mechanism in reinforced concrete, detailing dead, live, snow, soil, water, and rainfall loads, and how slabs transfer loads to beams, columns, and foundations.
Explore two reinforced concrete design methods: allowable stress design and ultimate design with factored loads, strength reduction factors phi, and code-based load combinations to determine envelopes.
Design a concrete mix per ACI 211.1-22 by selecting slump, water to cement ratio, and aggregate content to achieve target strength, durability, and workability, including trial mixes.
Design one-way solid slabs by assessing L over B to classify one-way versus two-way systems, and determine preliminary slab and beam thickness per ASI guidelines, including basic shear checks.
Design a solid reinforced concrete slab for shear using ASI standards; determine thickness with L/24, assess tributary loads, compute ultimate shear, and show no shear reinforcement is needed.
Apply psi coefficients to compute envelope moments for a solid slab, then determine minimum and main reinforcement, bar spacing, and layout for a 1000 mm strip with 200 mm thickness.
design a rectangular rc column under axial load per ACI standards, compute slab and tributary loads, then determine ultimate capacity and final 0.8 by 0.5 m column with 16 bars.
Dear student, In this course, you will learn the basics of reinforced concrete manual design per ACI Code Standards.
We will go through the fundamental concepts of concrete and steel and its design, such as the properties of concrete, the stress-strain diagrams, and load calculations for building design.
Additionaly, we will go through solved examples in the design of Solid Slab, Beams, and Columns, in addition to the Concrete technology and Concrete Mix Design, and the proportion of concrete admixture according to ACI 211.1 -22.
You will master the knowledge in these topics:
Manual Concrete Mix Design Per ACI 211.1-22 Method
ACI 318-19 Load Combinations
Dead Load, Live Load and Super Dead load On Slabs
Slab Ultimate Area Load Calculation
Short Column Capacity and Ultimate axial load on column
Design of Rectangular Column: Preliminary Dimensions and reinforcement
Load Transfer Mechanism - One Way and Two Way Solid Slabs
Determining of Solid Slab Preliminary Thickness
Design Principles of One Way Solid Slab Per ACI Standards
Determining of Beams Preliminary Thickness
Check Solid Slab for Shear Reinforcement - ACI
Example one Way Solid Slab Manual Design and Load Calculations
One Dimensional Structural Model Of Slab Strip
Determining the direction of Main and Secondary Beams in Slab
ACI Moment and Shear Coefficients Design Method
Solid Slab Manual Design for Flexure and Shrinkage
Longitudinal Slab Section Reinforcements and Details
Concrete Properties: Workability, Slump, Strength and Durability
Concrete Compressive Strength Fc`
Stress Strain Diagram of Concrete
Stress Strain Diagram of Steel
Tensile Strength of Steel
Clear Concrete Cover Per ACI Standards
Working Design Method and Ultimate Design Method
Strength Reduction Factors for Shear, Moment, Torsion
Live loads Per ASCE 7-22