Reinforced Concrete Design

Week 1:  Limit State Method

• Limit State of Collapse and Serviceability
• Beam design for flexure, Examples.
• Beam design for shear, and bond, Examples.

Week 2: Beam Design

• Singly reinforced beam Design, detailing, Examples.
• Doubly reinforced beam Design, detailing, Examples.
• T and L beam design, Examples.

Week 3: Slab & Staircase Design

• One-way slab design concept and Examples.
• Two-way slab design concept, Continuous slab design example.
• Staircase: Load distribution and design with example.

Week 4: Column Design

• Axially loaded and Uniaxial bending column design.
• Biaxial bending column design.
• Slender Column Design and Example.

Week 5: Foundation Design

• Introduction, Isolated Footing Design, example.
• Combined and Raft footing design example.
• Behavior of Piles, Pile design example.
• Pile cap design, and detailing.

Week 6: Ductile Detailing

• Introduction, Ductile Detailing IS code specifications.
• Beam-column joint, Strong Column-Weak Beam concept, Special Confining column.

Week 7: Deep Beam

• General Features, Flexural bending stress.
• Shear stress & IS code provisions.
• Deep beam design with examples.

Week 8: Flat Slab Design

• Flat slab behavior, Analysis Method.
• Shear in Flat Slab.
• Design Procedure with example.

Week 9: Underground Water Tank

• Earth pressure on the tank wall.
• Design long and short walls of rectangular tank example with detailing.
• Design of Top & Bottom slab with detailing.

Week 10: Circular Tank

• Joints in water tank, IS code design method.
• Circular tank design with example.
• Design of Top & Bottom slab with detailing.

Week 11: Intze Tank

• Introduction, Membrane analysis and continuity effect of joints.
• Design concept of Intze Tank.
• Design Examples with detailing.
• Supporting Columns design, with detailing.

Week 12: Building design using FE software

• Modeling and analysis of multi-stored building using STAAD Pro.
• Modal analysis of Building.
• Response Spectrum Analysis.
• Time History Analysis
• Design of Structural members.

1. S. U. Pillai and D. Menon, Reinforced Concrete Design, 4^th Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2021.
2. N. Subramanian, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Oxford University Press, 2013
3. M. L. Gambhir, Fundamentals of Reinforced Concrete Design, Prentice Hall India, 2006.
4. N. Krishna Raju, Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, CBS Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2016.
5. B. C Punmia, A. K. Jain & A. K. Jain, Reinforced Concrete Structures, 10^th edition, Laxmi Publication, 2015.
6. R. Park and T. Paulay, Reinforced Concrete Structures, John Wiley and Sons, 1975.
7. P. C. Varghese, Design of Reinforced Concrete Foundations, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Limited, 2009.

Codes and Standards:
i) IS 456: 2000, Indian Standard Plain and Reinforced Concrete Code of Practice. 4^th revision, Bureau of Indian Standards.
ii) SP 16: 1980, Design Aids for Reinforced Concrete to IS 456: 1978, Bureau of Indian Standards.
iii) SP 34: 1987, Handbook on Concrete Reinforcement and Detailing, Bureau of Indian Standards.
iv) IS 3370: 2009, Indian Standard Concrete Structures for Storage of Liquids Code of Practice, Bureau of Indian Standards.
v) IS 2911: 2010, Design and Construction of Pile foundations Code of Practice, Bureau of Indian Standards.
vi) IS 1893: Part 1, 2002: Criteria for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Bureau of Indian Standards.

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.