Introduction to Reinforced Concrete

• Concrete (Introduction, mix design, production, quality control and application. Concrete technology. Hardened concrete behaviour: cracking, uni-, bi- and tri-axial behaviour; Stress-strain relationships; statistical variability; creep, shrinkage, etc.). Reinforcing steel (mechanical characteristics and technical information). Concrete-steel interaction (bond) and anchorage. Durability of concrete.

• Laboratory work: concreting, consistence tests, compression and direct and indirect tension tests; tensile testing of steel bars. Bond and reinforcement anchorage tests.

• Reinforced concrete (RC). Line structural elements: linear elastic beam; RC beam; serviceability and ultimate limit states; behaviour in bending and shear; effect of axial load. Columns.

• Laboratory work: testing of RC beams with and without stirrups under transverse load with and without the combined action of axial load.

• Introduction to prestressed concrete.