CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Reinforced Concrete Structures 1
1.2 Design of Structures 2
1.3 A Brief Historical Sketch 4
1.4 Special Features of this Course 6
CHAPTER 2 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS 8
2.1 Reinforcing Steel 8
2.2 Concrete 10
2.3 Concerted Action of Concrete and Steel 21
CHAPTER 3 LIMIT STATE DESIGN 30
3.1 Limit State of a Structure 30
3.2 Load Effect and Structural Resistance 31
3.3 Reliability Analysis 32
3.4 The Current Chinese Code Practice 40
3.5 An Examplc of Design by Reliability Analysis 45
CHAPTER 4 REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS 48
4.1 Experimental Phenomena of Reinforced Concrete Beams 48
4.2 Analysis of Stress on Section under Flexure 51
4.3 Basic Assumptions 52
4.4 The Equivalent Stress Block 53
4.5 Balanced Section 54
4.6 Ultimate Moment of a Rectangular Section with Tension Reinforcement 55
4.7 Section with Compression Reinforcement 65
4.8 Tee-Section 72
4.9 Ductility of Section under Flexure 80
CHAPTER 5 DIAGONAL SECTION STRENGTH UNDER FLEXURE 84
5.1 Diagonal Cracks and Web Reinforcement 84
5.2 Members without Web Reinforcement 86
5.3 Web Reinforcement 92
5.4 Details of Web Reinforcement 96
5.5 Design Procedure of Web Reinforcement 97
5.6 Moment Resistance of the Diagonal Section 100
5.7 Example 106
5.8 Bar Schedule 109
5.9 Shear Stress in Beam of Variable Section 112
CHAPTER 6 GIRDER-BEAM-SLAB SYSTEM 114
6.1 Reinforced Concrete Girder-Beam-Slab System 114
6.2 Load Transmission of Girder-Beam-Slab System 116
6.3 Elastic Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Continuous Beams 118
6.4 Plastic Redistribution of Moment 121
6.5 Design of One-way Slab 130
6.6 Design of Beams 133
6.7 Design of Girders 135
6.8 Example of One-way Slab Design 138
6.9 Two-way Slabs 145
CHAPTER 7 COLUMNS 157
7.1 Introduction 157
7.2 Rectangular Tension Column Sections 160
7.3 Rectangular Compression Column Sections 170
7.4 Correlation of Mu and Nu 180
7.5 Moment Magnifying Coefficient 183
7.6 Axially Loaded Column 185
7.7 Bi-axial Eccentrically Loaded Column Section 190
7.8 Detailing Requirement 191
CHAPTER 8 TENSION MEMBERS 194
8.1 Introduction 194
8.2 Full Tension Section 195
8.3 Partial Tension Section 197
8.4 Correlation of Mu and Nu 202
CHAPTER 9 TORSION 203
9.1 The Cracking Torque 203
9.2 Ultimate Torque 206
9.3 Combined Action of Moment and Torque 215
9.4 Torsional Stiffness 218
9.5 Torsion as a Design Concern 219
CHAPTER 10 LIMIT STATE OF SERVICEABILITY 221
10.1 Introduction 221
10.2 Cracking Strength of a Member 222
10.3 Crack Width Control 229
10.4 Deflection Control 237
CHAPTER 11 CONTINUOUS REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES 244
11.1 Introduction 244
11.2 The Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Frames 246
11.3 Side Sway of a Frame 253
11.4 Changing in Length of Members 254
11.5 The Second Order Analysis 255
11.6 Continuous vs.Simple Structures 258
CHAPTER 12 PRESTRESSED CONCRETE 261
12.1 The Concept of Prestressing 261
12.2 Method of Prestressing the Concrete 263
12.3 Materials for Prestressed Concrete 265
12.4 The Control Stress and the Loss of Prestress 267
12.5 Prestressed Concrete Tension Members 274
12.6 Prestressed Concrete Bending Members 285
12.7 Shear Resistance of Prestressed Concrete Members 297
12.8 Miscellaneous Problems 301
APPENDIX 308
COMPUTER PROGRAMS 320
REFERENCES 344