Teaching

Course content:

1. Introduction: Material behavior of concrete and reinforced concrete, concept of confinement, ductility
2. Inelastic behavior and analysis: Moment-curvature analysis, curvature-rotation relationship, nonlinear static pushover analysis, behavior and modeling of beam-column joints
3. Strengthening: Concept of strengthening, strengthening against axial loads, flexure, shear, strengthening of beam-column joints
4. Anchorage and bond: Types of anchors, behavior and design under tension loads, shear loads, anchorages with anchor reinforcement, bond between reinforcement and concrete
5. Fire performance: Stress-strain curves of concrete and reinforcement under fire, design against fire, performance of reinforced concrete during fire and post-fire (residual) state, bond under fire

Course content:

1. Introduction: Recapitulation of fundamental concepts and basic definitions. Fundamentals of the members under axial load, bending, shear, torsion. Behavior of materials under stress, stress-strain relationships, failure modes and design.
2. Stress and strain: Definition of stress, stress notation, stress tensor, transformation of stress, principal stresses, plane stress, mean and deviatoric stress.
3. Elastic and inelastic material behavior: Hooke’s law for isotropic, orthotropic and anisotropic materials. Material nonlinearity, yield criteria and failure theories
4. The theory of bending: Fundamental concepts of bending, force-deflection relationship, bending stresses, equilibrium, compatibility, constitutive laws.
5. Torsion: Torsion in solid and thin walled members, linear elastic solution, torsion in rectangular members
6. Energy methods: Concept of stationary potential energy, Castigliano’s theorem, Deflections for statically determinate systems