Structural Concrete (P01305)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EEL-P-CVSTC

Concrete: strength in tension and compression, behaviour under multi-axial stress-strain states, cracking, post-cracking, softening, crack interface behaviour. Short-term monotonic and cyclic loading. Constititive relationships, failure and crushing surfaces, hyper- and hypo-elastic models, plasticity models, damage models. Smeared and discrete crack models, fixed, rotating and multi-directional concepts. Reinforcement: uniaxial properties and constitutive relationships, bond-slip behaviour and laws, tension stiffening, dowel action. Modelling strategies for reinforced concrete structures: concepts, discretisation, material modelling. Representation of concrete and reinforcement: 2D, 3D, beam and slab idealisations, discrete and embedded reinforcement, cables, membranes, composite elements. Bond-slip modelling, link and interface elements. Case studies chosen from simple RC beams, deep beams, pressure vessels, bridge decks. Advanced design methods for which no Code of Practice exists. Basic concepts, strut-and-tie models, direct design/Wood-Armer/plasticity approaches. Applications to deep beams, column-joint connections, beam-slab systems. Design methods using specialist literature: shear walls, unbonded flat slabs.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : First degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering (or Physics) with adequate structural engineering content.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Engineering and Electronics), (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 40 minutes per week for 9 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	External

? Additional Class Information : Students will need to travel to Glasgow University (information will be provided by Course organiser)

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

describe and explain the nonlinear material behaviour of concrete and reinforcement.
model computationally reinforced concrete structures to ensure all important behaviour is captured.
use the direct design/Wood-Armer/plasticity approaches for the design of reinforced concrete structures.
design reinforced concrete structures for which no Code of Practice exists.
interpret and use computational modelling predictions in the design process.