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Postgraduate Course: Structural Concrete (PGEE11014)

Course Outline
School School of Engineering College College of Science and Engineering
Course type Standard Availability Not available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken) SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits 10
Home subject area Postgrad (School of Engineering) Other subject area None
Course website None Taught in Gaelic? No
Course description Concrete: strength in tension and compression, behaviour under multi-axial stress-strain states, cracking, post-cracking, softening, crack interface behaviour. Short-term monotonic and cyclic loading. Constititive relationships, failure and crushing surfaces, hyper- and hypo-elastic models, plasticity models, damage models. Smeared and discrete crack models, fixed, rotating and multi-directional concepts. Reinforcement: uniaxial properties and constitutive relationships, bond-slip behaviour and laws, tension stiffening, dowel action. Modelling strategies for reinforced concrete structures: concepts, discretisation, material modelling. Representation of concrete and reinforcement: 2D, 3D, beam and slab idealisations, discrete and embedded reinforcement, cables, membranes, composite elements. Bond-slip modelling, link and interface elements. Case studies chosen from simple RC beams, deep beams, pressure vessels, bridge decks. Advanced design methods for which no Code of Practice exists. Basic concepts, strut-and-tie models, direct design/Wood-Armer/plasticity approaches. Applications to deep beams, column-joint connections, beam-slab systems. Design methods using specialist literature: shear walls, unbonded flat slabs.
Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
External To UniversityLecture1-11 14:00 - 15:50
First Class First class information not currently available
Additional information Students will need to travel to Glasgow University (information will be provided by Course organiser)
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
describe and explain the nonlinear material behaviour of concrete and reinforcement.
model computationally reinforced concrete structures to ensure all important behaviour is captured.
use the direct design/Wood-Armer/plasticity approaches for the design of reinforced concrete structures.
design reinforced concrete structures for which no Code of Practice exists.
interpret and use computational modelling predictions in the design process.
Assessment Information
Project 1 - Finite element modelling 25%
Project 2 - RC design 25%
Exam 50%
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiser Dr Asif Usmani
Tel: (0131 6)50 5789
Email: Asif.Usmani@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Mrs Kim Orsi
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Kim.Orsi@ed.ac.uk
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