Reinforced Concrete Design

Abi Aghayere is a professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia and has more than 20 years design experience in the structural engineering consulting field. He is the co-author of Structural Wood Design (ASD/LRFD), 2nd Edition, and Structural Steel Design: A Practice Oriented Approach, 2nd Edition.

• 1. Materials and Mechanics of Bending, Concrete Slab Systems and Gravity Load Distribution in Concrete Slab Systems 2. Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Beams and Slabs: Tension Steel Only, Slabs-on-Grade 3. Reinforced Concrete Beams: T-Beams and Doubly Reinforced Beams 4. Shear and Torsion in Beams, and Corbels and Brackets 5. Development, Splices, and Simple Bar Cut-offs, Structural Integrity Reinforcement 6. Continuous Construction Design Considerations 7. Serviceability: Deflections, Cracking, and Floor Vibrations 8. Structural Walls — Retaining Walls, Basement Walls, Bearing Walls, and Shear Walls 9. Columns: Axial Load plus Bending, Biaxial Bending, and Slender Columns 10. Foundations: Spread Footings, Strip Footings, Combined Footings, Eccentrically Loaded Footings, Strap Footings 11. Prestressed Concrete Fundamentals 12. Concrete Formwork 13. Detailing Reinforced Concrete Structures 14. Practical Considerations in the Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings