Advanced Structural Concrete

Content

Fundamentals (structural analysis, theorems of limit analysis, applicability of limit analysis methods); shear walls and girders (stress fields and truss models, deformation capacity, membrane elements with yield conditions and load-deformation behaviour, computer-aided structural design); slabs (equilibrium solutions, yield conditions, shear and punching shear); long-term effects; steel fibre reinforced concrete (mechanical behaviour, applications); fire behaviour.

Learning objectives

Within this course, the students are able to:

• deepen their understanding of structural concrete models and apply them to general design problems, including the assessment of existing structures.
• enhance their knowledge about the load-deformation response of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.
• identify and assess the limits of applicability of limit analysis methods.
• recognise the assumptions of models suitable for computer-aided structural design and use structural concrete design softwares in a critical way.
• evaluate the long-term behaviour and the behaviour under fire conditions of concrete structures.
• assess the behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete structures.

Literature

• Lecture notes (Autography) of lectures Stahlbeton I-II, Prof. Dr. W. Kaufmann
  [Stahlbeton I, Stahlbeton II]
• Marti, P., “Theory of Structures” , Ernst & Sohn / Wiley, 2012
  [Publisher, E-Book, ETH Library]
• Structural design norms SIA 260/261/262
• “Tragverhalten von Stahlbeton”, IBK ETH Zurich, 1999
  [Supplementary documents, ETH Library]
• Nielsen, M.P., Hoang, L.C., “Limit Analysis and Concrete Plasticity”, CRC Press, 2010
  [Publisher, E-Book, ETH Library]
• “Design of Concrete Structures with Stress Fields”, Birkhäuser, 2008
  [Publisher and E-Book (English), ETH Library (German)]
• Lecture notes of lectures Stahlbeton I-II, Prof. Dr. P. Marti
  [Supplementary documents]
• Kaufmann W. et al., “Compatible Stress Field Design of Structural Concrete: Principles and Validation“, ETH Zurich & IDEA StatiCa, 2020
  [E-Book, ETH Library]