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Structural Concrete Design
Course Syllabus – Fall 2019c
MW 4:10 – 5:25 pm
MOVED TO ZACH ROOM 211

PLEASE NOTE: The syllabus will suffer changes throughout the semester, depending on our ability to cover the material. Please check the syllabus daily for changes, especially before you work any homework problems, which are subject to change.

Help for CVEN 444 is available from the people shown below, at the office hours listed.

Professor: Lee L. Lowery, Jr., PhD, P.E.

Office: CEOB (7th floor of Dwight Look Office Building), Room 705E
Phone: 979-845-4395 (Office), 979-775-5401 (Home)
e-mail: Lowery@tamu.edu

Office Hours: https://lowery.engr.tamu.edu/office-hours/

Please plan on assistance either during my office hours, or see the  Teaching Associate (below) during their office hours. Please don’t wait until just before class or a quiz to get help or you likely won’t get any.

I try and keep my office hours up to date, and to add unexpected meetings as they arise. However, it will always be in your best interest to call before you come by, unless you are already in the area.

Teaching Associate:  Pushkar Shivechchhu

Office: CVLB Solarium on 2nd floor

Office hours:  M 10 to 3, TR 1 to 3, W 12 to 4, R 1 to 3.  (May change) – 10 hours per week devoted solely to student learning and tutoring of CVEN 444.  If you don’t ever come by for help you aren’t really serious about passing 444.    

Email: Pushkarshivechchhu@tamu.edu

Rohan Naik: Grader, in case you think something got missing in your homework or you need to know something about grading of your homework: Rohan Naik: rohan8@tamu.edu

Textbook: Wight – Reinforced Concrete – Pearson – ISBN 9780133485967

I strongly recommend that you get a text.  Don’t go without a text if at all possible.  It will make taking tests really difficult, plus they are pretty cheap.  See below.

The Wight textbook is excellent.  It is written for use as both an undergraduate and graduate text combined.  Our coverage will be those topics as recommended by the author as undergraduate materials.  Click here.

Looking for a Wight textbook?

NOT REQUIRED but available if you want one – Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-14) and Commentary  (ACI 318R-14), American  Concrete  Institute.   Available cheap(er) at ACI as a (free) student member.  They sent me ACI 318-14, the old one.

Also just available is the latest edition ACI 318-19.  Either will probably work for us but if they cost the same, get the latest ACI 318-19.

ACI 318-14 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary

ISBN  9780870319303                 ISBN: 978-1-64195-056-5  Latest edition just available

TAMU Bookstore

AbeBooks

Google.com  –  many sources

Book4college.com  –  Search for ISBN 9780870319303 (old) or 9781641950565 (new)

Campus Books

DealOz

eBay.com ACI 318-14 – $20 used     eBay.com ACI 318-19 used?

AllBookstores.com

BE CAREFUL! You only want the editions shown above.  Check the ISBN numbers carefully, especially if you order online.  If they don’t say up front which edition they are selling, it probably isn’t the one you want.

TAMU Catalog Description:

Behavior, design, and detailing of reinforced concrete structural members according to the ACI Building Code Requirements.  Design for ultimate limit states (flexure, shear, and axial loads) and serviceability requirements (cracking and deflection). Applications include continuous beams and moment frames.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Students will develop an understanding of the mechanics, analysis, design and detailing aspects of reinforced concrete structures. At the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify reinforced concrete structural building types and structural members
  • Analyze and design reinforced concrete structural  members to resist applied loads and satisfy performance objectives, per ACI Building Code Requirements
  • Apply ACI Building Code Requirements for strength and serviceability to the design and detailing of concrete beams, one-way slabs, and column structural members.

ABET Learning Outcomes:

ABET Professional Content:ABET Outcomes Addressed:

•  Preparation for engineering practice
•  Design experience
•  Engineering design incorporating engineering standards
•  Engineering design incorporating realistic constraints that include economic, environmental,
health, and safety

  1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
  3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 2019-2020 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs 6
  5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
  7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

Course Prerequisites:

To take CVEN 444, you MUST have received a passing grade (no D’s, F’s or I’s) in

Theory of Structures (CVEN 345)
•   Materials of Construction (CVEN 342) or Portland Cement
•   Concrete Materials for Civil Engineers (CVEN 343) or registration therein.

Course Assessment:

  • Graded major exams (Quiz A, Quiz B, and Final Exam for a total of 3 exams @ 30% each)
  • Graded homework assignments, Readiness Assessment Tests (RATs), Class Participation, Attendance, Projects = 10%

Resources available to the student:

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SYLLABUS INFORMATION:

The correct time (to the nanosecond)

Tentative Course Schedule
Topic Week Required Reading *Read Text Pages **Homework Problems

Introduction: Reinforced Concrete (RC) as a Construction

Material; Historic Development of Concrete; Types of RC Members and Structures; Design

methods and Philosophies; U.S. Design Codes; LRFD and

Reliability-Based Design Concepts

1

8/26-30

 Ch. 1 & 2 1 – 41 All problems worth 10 points.  All are due the next week on  Wednesday at the front of the class before you sit down

Properties of Concrete: Concrete Constituents;  Properties of Fresh

Concrete; Concrete Mechanical Properties (Compressive  Strength,

Tensile Strength, Shear Strength, Modulus of Elasticity, Creep in

Compression, Shrinkage, Thermal Deformations); Placement of

Fresh Concrete; Concrete Curing and Protection; Quality Control of Concrete

1-2

9/2-4

 Ch. 3 63 – 122 Assigned 9/2/19:
3.5. 3.6, 3.7**
Due 9/11/19 at beginning of class only.

Properties of Steel Rebar: ASTM Classification  and Identification;

Mechanical Properties of steel rebar (Yield and ultimate strength,

Modulus of Elasticity)

2

9/2/4

 Ch. 3 81 – 102
Flexural Analysis  and  Design of Singly-Reinforced RC Beams: Review of Beam Mechanics; Response of Reinforced Concrete Beams Under Load; Flexural Strength of Rectangular RC Beams (Equivalent Stress Block Distribution, Over-/Under-reinforced Beams, Reinforcement  Ratio Limits and Guidelines); LRFD Strength Requirements;  Flexural Analysis and Design of Rectangular RC Beams; ACI Code Requirements for Rebar Spacing and Concrete Cover

3

9/9-11

 Ch. 4 105-128 Assigned 9/9/19:
4-1, 4-2**
Due 9/18/19
at beginning of class.
4
9/16-18		 125-151 Assigned 9/11/19:
4-3, 4-4**
Due 9/25/19 at beginning of class.
5
9/23-25		 151-185 Assigned 9/16/19:
4-11, 4-12**
Due 10/2/19 at beginning of class.
Flexural Design of One-way RC Slabs: Analysis and Design principles, Code Requirements,  Design Examples

6

9/30-10/2

 Ch. 4&5 175-197
Flexural Design of RC T-Beams: T-Beam Flexural Analysis; Maximum Steel Reinforcement for T-Beams; Flexural Design of T-Beams

QUIZ A – SEPT 30th IN CLASS

7

10/7

 Ch. 5 198-220
198-220
Flexural Design of Doubly-Reinforced Beams: Analysis and Design principles, Code Requirements,  Design Examples

7

10/9

 Ch. 5 220-242
242-262
Shear Design of RC Beams: Shear Reinforcement  Design Requirements; Shear Analysis Procedure; Shear Design Provisions; Stirrup Design Procedure

8

10/14-16

 Ch. 6 263-322 Assigned 10/14/19:
5-1, 5-2, 5-5
Due 10/23/19 at beginning of class.

Team problem #1
Assigned 10/16/19
Due 10/28/19
9
10/21-23		 263-322 Assigned 10/21/19:
5-6, 5-14, 5-15
Due 10/30/19 at beginning of class.

Team Problem #2
Assigned 10/23/19
Due 10/30/19
10
10/28-30		 263-322
QUIZ B  – NOV 6th IN CLASS
Covers through Chapter 5 in text
Homework problems through 5-15

11

11/4-6

 Ch. 8 379-433 Assigned 11/4/19:
6-1, 6-2, 6-3
Due 11/13/19 at beginning of class.
12
11/11-13		 379-433

Bond, Anchorage, and  Development Length: Development Length

for Bars in Tension; Development  Length for Bars in Compression;

Development Length for Standard Hooks in Tension; Bar Cutoffs and

Bends; Development of Web Reinforcement; Reinforcement  Splicing;

Development of Positive Moment Reinforcement

13

11/18-20

 Ch. 8 379-433 Assigned 11/18/19:
8-1, 8-2,
8-3, 8-4

Due 11/25/19 at beginning of class

Analysis and  Design of “Short” RC Columns: Strength of RC Columns

with Small Eccentricity; ACI Code Requirements for Column Reinforcement;

Analysis and Design of Short Columns with Small Eccentricity; Columns

under Axial Load and Moment; Analysis of and Design of Short Columns

with Large Eccentricity

14

11/25

 Ch. 11 515-564 Assigned 11/20/19:
11-1, 11-2, 11-3, 11-4

Due Monday 11/25/19 at beginning of class
Analysis and  Design of “Short” RC Columns: Strength of RC Columns with Small Eccentricity; ACI Code Requirements for Column Reinforcement; Analysis and Design of Short Columns with Small Eccentricity; Columns under Axial Load and Moment; Analysis of and Design of Short Columns with Large Eccentricity 15
12/4		 Ch. 11
FINAL EXAM DATE, MAYBE, CHECK IT OUT
In our regular classroom – DECEMBER 9TH 3:30-5:30PM

* NOTE: Pages listed above refer to a US text.  If you have an international edition you must add 20 pages to those numbers to be on the correct page.
** NOTE 2: US homework problem numbers differ from the international problems, usually in beam dimensions, fc’, Fy, etc. only, perhaps in the question asked.  You will have to get with someone who has a US printing to get the correct problem information.  As far as I can tell, every other word in the $20 version is the same as the US edition.

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All syllabi shall contain a section that states the Aggie Honor Code and refers the student to the Honor Council Rules and Procedures on the web: http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor

ABET Outcomes Addressed – From New (1) – (7)

  1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  2. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  3. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  4. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  5. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.