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Continuation of AE 402.  Advanced analysis, design and detail of concrete masonry and prestressed and reinforced concrete.

AE 402, AE 430

To prepare students to design reinforced concrete structures by understanding the that reinforced concrete analysis and design are inextricably linked. To assist students in recognizing design issues, formulating design problems, indicating the required analysis, and completing a design that solves the problem.

1. Analysis and design of one-way system
2. Torsion analysis
3. Two-way systems
4. Direct design method for two-way slabs
5. Edge beam design
6. Shear design for two-way systems
7. Stiffness analysis
8. Equivalent frame method
9. Frame analysis
10. Economies in a two-way system
11. Short columns
12. Biaxially loaded short columns
13. Slender columns
14. Shear walls
15. Flexural analysis of reinforced concrete section
16. Prestressed concrete

3 classes/week, 50 minutes/class