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Reinforced Concrete Design
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Reinforced Concrete Design
College · Engineering

Reinforced Concrete Design

4 topics
Civil

Before this course

Structural Analysis

Topics

Flexure

Main lesson
Minimum steel
Use this for “What is the least steel area for a beam 14 in wide with d = 24 in, f′c = 5000 psi and fᵧ = 60,000 psi?”

Shear

Main lesson

Columns

Main lesson
Axial strength of a spiral column
Use this for “A 16 in square column has 8 #8 bars in a spiral, f′c = 5 ksi, fᵧ = 60 ksi. Find φPn,max.”
Short or slender column
Use this for “A 16 in square column has 12 ft between floors, k = 1, in a sway frame. Is it slender?”

Slabs and footings

Main lesson
Minimum thickness of a one-way slab
Use this for “A one-way slab spans 15 ft with one end continuous. What is its least thickness?”
Factored column load
Use this for “A column carries 120 kips dead load and 80 kips live load. What service load sizes its footing, and what factored load Pᵤ checks it?”
Course test
See what you know: 10 questions on this course
New questions each time. Pass to mark it complete.
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