University Of Central Florida

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering

CES 5706

Advanced Reinforced Concrete

Catalog Description: Design of frames, two-way floor systems, shear walls, shear and torsion, compression field theory, inelastic analysis, wind and seismic design, introduction to prestressed concrete.

Pre-requisite(s):
· CES 4702 Reinforced Concrete Structures
· Structural Analysis I

Designation: Elective

Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:

Math & Science Topic 0.0 credit hours
Engineering Topics 3.0 credit hours
General Education Topics 0.0 credit hours

 

Class Schedule: Laboratory Schedule:
Number of sessions per week 2 Number of sessions per week N/A
Duration of each session 75 mins Duration of each session N/A

Course Objectives:
· Prepare students for advanced graduate research on RC structures or joining the structural engineering community as a knowledgeable and competent structural designer.

Topics:
· Visualization Skills: Many of the problems encountered in this course are three-dimensional and are intended to enhance visualization skills
· Problem Solving Skills: Most of the problems in this class have more than one way of getting to the right answer. Students must be able to think ahead to identify the simplest solution.
· Design Skills: This is a design class, which emphasizes and component design as well as system design
· Critical Thinking Skills: This class emphasizes and develops the students' intuitive ability to judge the quality of their designs.
· Knowledge of current philosophies for design: LRFD emphasized
· Probabilistic basis for LRFD.
· Load cases and calculation of design forces.
· Design of beams, columns, and beam-columns, Shear walls.
· One-way and two-way floor systems,
· Shear, torsion, compression field theory.
· Inelastic analysis.
· Wind and seismic design.
· Introduction to prestressed concrete

Textbook(s):
· Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design, 3/3, Author: James G. MacGregor, Prentice Hall Copyright 1997, 939 pp. Cloth format, ISBN 0-13-233974-9

Reference(s):
· N/A

Relationship of the course to Program Outcomes:
· This course is used to assess civil and environmental engineering program outcomes number 1, 4, 6, 7, and 10.
· It is also used to apply concepts learnt in program outcomes number 1, 4, 6, 7, and 10.
· This course also addresses the Criterion a, c, e, f, g, h, i, k (from the a-k list of ABET)