1. Course introduction: Historical overview on the reinforced concrete use and production. Ordinary and high performance concrete: mechanical and rheological properties. Mono-axial and pluri-axial stress states.
2. Structural safety: The semi-probabilistic limit state method. Actions and resistances design values. Limit state design structural verifications.
3. Bending ultimate limit state: Experimental behaviour of a reinforced concrete beam. Design assumptions, possible ranges of strain distributions, ductile and brittle behaviour, cross-sections ultimate moment resistance.
4. Bending with axial force ultimate limit state: Design assumptions. Construction of the axial force-moment interaction diagram.
5. Shear ultimate limit state: Experimental behaviour. Members requiring and not requiring design shear reinforcement. Truss model with variously inclined struts and shear reinforcement.
6. Serviceability limit states: Bonding. Methods of anchorage. Calculation of crack widths. Deformation of cracked and uncracked beams. Tension stiffening.
9. Prestressed Concrete: Historical overview on the prestressed concrete use. Pre-stressing levels. Pre- and post-tensioning systems. Bonded and unbonded tendons. Immediate and time dependent losses of pre-stress. Comparison between the moment-curvature diagram of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams. Resultant tendon. Hyperstatic prestressed beams. Check of the beam at tensioning, after pre-stress losses and at ultimate limit state.
10. Design and detailing of slab for vertical loads:
Loads; Structural schemes for calculation of internal action; Restraints; Plate effects;
11. The design and the organization of structures for horizontal loads.
Effects of thermal action and shrinkage; wind and seismic actions; buildings with a moment resisting frame system; buildings with shear wall system; the distribution of the seismic action among the shear walls; the centre of the shear wall stiffness; the role and the organization of the floor diaphragm.
12. Theory of shell
Theory of open shell and closed shell: distribution of shear stress and position of shear centre. A case study: the lift shaft wall system.
13. Detailing
Beam-column joint; beam with a variation of the cross-section depth; curved shape beam; anchorages and splices;
14. Foundations for shear walls
Typologies; direct foundation; multi-span deep beam; underground box structures.
