Concrete Structures Design

Day 1:

• Review of actions’ combinations (EC 1990-1-1);
• Review of EC 1991;
• Concrete material;
• Reinforcement material;
• Anchorage;
• Failure phases of flexural elements;
• Bending in ULS;
• Shear in ULS;

Day 2:

• Creep;
• Shrinkage;
• Serviceability limit states:
• Stress Limitation;
• Crack Control;
• Deflection Control;
• Beams’ detailing;
• Slabs’ detailing;

Day 3:

• Imperfection;
• Buckling Phenomena in Concrete structures;
• Column Categorization;
• Design of Short columns;
• Slender Column (Nominal Stiffness Method, Nominal Curvature Method)
• Design of slender columns;
• Columns under biaxial bending moments;
• Wall Design;
• Columns’ detailing;
• Walls’ detailing;

Day 4:

• Strut and Tie method;
• Corbel Design;
• Corbels’ detailing;
• Shear between web and flanges of T-sections;
• Shear at the interface between concretes cast at different times;
• Torsion;
• Punching;
• Ground Slab Design according to “by 45”;

Day 5:

• Design of fastenings for use in concrete (EC 1992-4);
• Connections Design;
• Bearings design;
• Wall connections (loop connections, wall shoes );
• Dowel design;
• Element Detailing (beams, columns, floors, internal walls, façade walls);
• Precast Concrete Against Accidental Actions.