Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete for Construction Managers
What you'll learn
- Explain the meaning of passive reinforcing versus active reinforcing
- List examples of active and passive reinforcing
- Discuss the effects of adding rebar to concrete
- Explain how the change in location of the rebar within the concrete effects its performance
- List advantages of prestressed concrete
- Describe the difference between pre-tensioned and post-tensioned reinforcing
- Describe the precast concrete process
- Explain how post-tensioned concrete works
- List common examples of prestressed concrete structures
Requirements
- You should have a basic understanding of concrete and its use as a building material.
- The course briefly discusses concrete and its properties relative to reinforcing, but if you need a better understanding of concrete, try our Understanding Concrete course here on Udemy
- You will need a program or app that allows you to view PDF files in order to read the downloadable material and handouts
Description
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world. In addition to understanding concrete, today's construction professional needs to understand the principles of concrete reinforcing and how prestressed concrete works. This includes both pre-tensioned concrete that is typically manufactured in a precast plant, and post-tensioned concrete that is cast-in-place. Post-tensioned concrete is being used more and more throughout the world to build multi-story structures, slabs-on-ground, and bridges, while precast prestressed concrete continues to be used in rapidly built structures like parking garages. Understanding how and why reinforcing and prestressing works in a concrete structure.
Gain a better understanding of the principle and theory behind concrete reinforcing and prestressing to help you be a better construction management professional.
After completing this course you will be able to...
- Explain the meaning of passive reinforcing versus active reinforcing and list examples of each
- Discuss the effects of adding rebar to a concrete element
- Explain how the change in location of the rebar within the concrete effects its performance
- List advantages of prestressed concrete
- Describe the difference between pre-tensioned and post-tensioned reinforcing
- Describe the precast concrete process
- Explain how post-tensioned concrete works
- List common examples of prestressed concrete structures
Learn from a professional
My courses have been created as a place where everyone, whether you are an experienced professional, a young project engineer, new to a trade or a seasoned journeyman, can come to learn more about the industry that we have chosen as our profession. That's what this platform is about. These courses are meant to be a way for you to increase your knowledge of the construction industry in a variety of cutting edge topics from concrete reinforcing and prestressing, to micro trenching, to safety management systems. This is not a course that teaches you how to install rebar or prestressing steel. It is a course that educates you on why we reinforce concrete and how it works. This is information you need as a construction professional in order to talk to designers, owners and subcontractors.
This course is a great way for you to increase your knowledge about concrete reinforcing and prestressing.
Who this course is for:
- This course is meant for anyone that has responsibilities as a construction management professional. This course will give you an understanding of the principle and theory behind reinforced and prestressed concrete and will get you familiar with the terms used by the professionals and experts in the industry. This course is ideal for construction professionals that may not have formal training in reinforcing or prestressing. This course is also ideal for anyone that is just getting started in the industry, or anyone that wants to go beyond a basic understanding of concrete reinforcing and move to a level of understanding that will help you communicate with designers, producers and other professionals.
- If you work around, or manage projects that utilized prestressed concrete (pre-tensioned or post-tensioned) then this course is for you!
- If you have been through a PTI Certification course or one of the Ironworker's apprenticeship courses, then you may already have a good understanding of the material in this course.
Course content
- Preview02:31
- 10 questionsHow much do you already know?
- 03:08Getting the Most from this Course
- Preview02:41
- 01:25Reference Material
Instructor
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I work in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. I have been a faculty associate in the construction management program and have taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in that program, including courses in concrete, scheduling, productivity and safety. I am currently the Director of the school's OSHA Training Institute Education Center where I develop, produce and teach many courses in occupational safety and health for construction and general industry.
Prior to joining ASU, I spent many years in the construction industry including roles managing a public works contractor in California, a large concrete contractor in Arizona and I managed a division of one of the largest post-tensioning companies in North America. In between my industry roles and my latest role teaching, I spent some time working for industry associations and acting as a consultant for a large construction union. I learned a lot in these different roles and as I have progressed I have come to realize that our industry has a real need to do a better job disseminating knowledge.
My teaching experience includes the following academic courses taught at Arizona State University:
--CON 100 - Introduction to Construction
--CON 271 - Construction Safety
--CIM 205 - Concrete Construction Methods
--CIM 306 - Concrete Plant Management
--CIM 494 - Reinforcing and Post-Tensioning
--CON 494 - Temporary Structures and Reinforcing Methods
--CON 495 - Planning and Scheduling
--CON 540 - Construction Productivity
I also have a number of published articles and write a regular construction safety collumn for Concrete Construction Magazine.