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Course code: IBS20083o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Advanced concrete structures
Major: Civil Engineering
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 7
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 45 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Sylwester Kobielak
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for a group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English.

Learning outcomes: The course objective is to introduce the advanced design methodologies for RC special structures. In particular, students will be able to apply the knowledge of concepts they learned for the analysis and design of a variety structures and structural systems and as well as students will train on modern software packages for the analysis and design of structural systems. The emphasis will be placed on usage of relevant codal provisions while designing and detailing of the structures.

Competences: After completion of the course, the student should be able to design advanced engineering concrete structures and to recognize the structural behavior of these structures.

Prerequisites: undergraduate course in structural analysis and undergraduate course in theory and design of reinforced concrete.

Course content: Arches structures. Folded plate and cylindrical shell roof structures. Domes. Hyperbolic paraboloids. Silos and tanks. Chimneys, masts and towers. Tall building structures and offshore drilling platforms. Materials considered include reinforced and prestressed concrete.

Recommended literature: Navy E. G.: Prestressed Concrete. A Fundamental Approach, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, 2000; Stafford Smith B., Coull A.: Tall Buildings Structures, A Wiley- Interscience Publication, 1991; Safarian Sargis S., Harris Ernest C.: Design and Construction of Silos and Bunkers, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company1985; Silos. Fundamentals of theory, behavior and design, Edited by Brown C. J. and Nielsen J.; Concrete Thin Shells, SP-28, American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, 1971,424 pp.; Billington, D. P., Thin Shell Structures, Structural Engineering Handbook, Gaylord and Gaylord, eds. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, pp. 24.1-24.57; Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shells, SP-110, American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, 1988, 184 pp.;. Billington, D. P., Thin Shell Concrete Structures, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Co.,New York, 1982, 373 pp.; ACI Committee 373R, "Design and Construction of Circular Prestressed Concrete Structures with Circumferential Tendons (ACI 373R-97), American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, 1997, 26 pp. Also ACI Manual o Concrete Practice; Rama Swamy G. S.: Design and Construction of Concrete Shell Roofs, CBS Publishers & Distributors, Delhi. Stafford Smith B. and Coull A.: Tall Building Structures: Analyses and Design, A Wiley-Interscience Publication John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1991. Taranth B. S.: Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings , McGraw-Hil, New York 1988

Assessment methods: Written and oral exam, project at least 75 %

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