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Concrete Structures

Concrete Structures provides unique self-experiments, realistic problems and an accompanying CD-ROM help readers further understand concrete’s structural significance and potential as a building material. Ideal for engineering, architectural engineering, building construction, and architecture students, it covers concrete technology, analysis and design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns, footings, and walls.

List Price $103.00
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Author: Mehdi Setareh, Robert M. Darvas
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 576

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Description

Integrating coverage of the 2005 American Concrete Institute codes, Concrete Structures presents a practical step-by-step approach to understanding the fundamental concepts and procedures involved in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete elements and systems. It covers concrete technology, analysis, and design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns, footings and walls, as well as an introduction to the different types of reinforced concrete floor systems and fundamentals of pre-stressed concrete structures.

Features of Concrete Structures include:

Concrete Structures includes the most recent methods of design and analysis of reinforced concrete structures and is based on the American Concrete Institute's (ACI) 318-05.
Easy to follow using a step-by-step, non-calculus approach.
Includes a series of experiments readers can conduct on their own to comprehend concrete's structural significance and understand more about concrete as a building material.

For courses in Reinforced Concrete Design or Reinforced Concrete Structures.

Ideal for engineering, architectural engineering, building construction, and architecture students, it covers concrete technology, analysis and design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns, footings, and walls. It also introduces the different types of reinforced concrete floor systems and the fundamentals of pre-stressed concrete structures. Unique self-experiments, realistic problems and an accompanying CD-ROM help readers further understand concrete's structural significance and potential as a building material.

Features:
Based on the 2005 ACI Code–which was published in February 2005.

Includes the most recent methods of design and analysis of reinforced concrete structures and is based on the American Concrete Institute Code (ACI 318-05).
Offers the most up-to-date coverage and is one of the only texts based on this new code.

Step-by-step, non-calculus approach–makes this text easy to follow and ideal for engineering, architectural engineering, building construction, and architecture students.

Flowcharts are used throughout to show the step-by-step methods for the analysis and design of reinforced concrete members.

Includes clearly numbered summaries of the procedures and example solutions that also follow these steps.

Self-experiments–appear throughout the text and make it unique.

Includes a series of experiments students can conduct on their own to comprehend concrete's structural significance and understand more about concrete as a building material.

Provides experiments that are simple-to-do sets and can be completed without a testing facility.

An accompanying tests and construction CD-ROM–is included with the book.

Explores reinforced concrete testing, construction, and possible associated problems.
Contains high quality images of various concrete structures and systems, descriptions of common standard tests performed on concrete, examples of self-experiments and more!

Numerous realistic problems–appear at the end of each chapter.

Provides instructors with assignment material and an accompanying solutions manual that contains detailed solutions for each problem.

From the Preface
The intended audience of this book is architectural engineering, undergraduate civil engineering, building construction, and architecture students. The manuscript complies with the provisions of the ACI Code 318-05. The easy-to-follow style of the text makes it valuable to engineering and non-engineering students. Furthermore, educators and practitioners interested in the analysis and design of concrete structures based on the latest ACI Code provisions may also benefit from it.

Chapter 1 covers the topic of concrete technology. It discusses the most important properties of the main components of reinforced concrete. This technology is essential for both architecture and engineering students.

Chapter 2 discusses the analysis and design of rectangular beams and one-way slabs, including a complete treatment of the Unified Design Method as recommended by the ACI 318-05. Several examples demonstrate the provisions of the latest changes in the ACI Code. It is written to benefit architecture and engineering students as well. Depending on the main objectives of the course and class time constraints, the instructor can select the specific topics and their details to be included for the intended audience.

Chapter 3: Special Topics in Flexure covers T-beams, doubly reinforced beams, and a discussion of the deflection of reinforced concrete beams and slabs. These topics are more complex, but indispensable in the design of concrete structures. The detailed technical information presented is essential for engineering students. We recommend that only a brief discussion of each topic be used in courses for architecture students.

Chapter 4: Shear in Reinforced Concrete Beams covers the design of shear reinforcements in reinforced concrete beams. We consider this chapter to be important in both engineering and architecture courses. The depth of coverage may be left to the discretion of the instructor.

Chapter 5 covers the analysis and design of reinforced concrete columns. It includes a complete treatment of "short" columns with small and large eccentricities. Because most reinforced concrete columns are short and a complete treatment of slender columns is usually only covered in advanced engineering courses, we decided to cover that topic generally. We recommend this chapter be covered in engineering and architectural courses.

Chapter 6 is a treatise on the different floor systems typically used in reinforced concrete buildings. A simplified approach appropriate for both architecture and engineering students is used.

Chapter 7 discusses foundations, and earth-retaining walls. The chapter starts with a background on some aspects of soil mechanics and geotechnical investigations for building design. These topics are not usually covered in reinforced concrete structures textbooks. However, we are aware that many engineering students do not take a soil mechanics course as a prerequisite for a reinforced concrete class. Furthermore, soil mechanics and foundation courses are unavailable in nearly all architecture curriculums. The treatment of the subjects of foundations and earth-retaining walls are well-suited for both architecture and engineering students.

Chapter 8 is an introduction to prestressed concrete for both architecture and engineering students.

Chapter 9 discusses the use of the SI System in reinforced concrete design and construction. We decided against the use of the equivalent SI System within the main body of the book, as is done in many other textbooks. We felt that this resulted in a clearer text. Several examples on different topics covered in other chapters are again presented using the equivalent SI System.

Two unique features of this book are the "Self-Experiments" and an accompanying CD with images of concrete structures. From our experience we know that some engineering students and nearly all architecture students do not have access to a testing laboratory. Therefore, we included these simple-to-do sets of experiments that students can perform to learn about reinforced concrete from their own experiences. We believe these experiments may also help students gain a better understanding of concrete as a building material. The accompanying CD has a number of high-quality images of reinforced concrete structures, so that students can develop an appreciation of the potential this building material offers.

There are numerous problems at the ends of each chapter to be used as homework assignments. A complete Instructor's Solutions Manual is available [from the publisher] upon request.

A step-by-step approach was adopted throughout the text. Most of the procedures for design or analysis are summarized in flowcharts, where all steps are numbered, and the example solutions follow these steps. In our experience this approach helps students try to follow the numerical solutions of various problems.

Table of Contents
1. Reinforced Concrete Technology. 2. Rectangular Beams and One-Way Slabs. 3. Special Topics in Flexure. 4. Shear in Reinforced Concrete Beams. 5. Columns. 6. Floor Systems. 7. Foundations and Earth Supporting Walls. 8. Overview of Prestressed Concrete. 9. Metric System in Reinforced Concrete Design and Construction. APPENDIX A: TABLES AND DIAGRAMS. APPENDIX B: STANDARD ACI NOTATIONS. Index.

About the Authors
Dr Mehdi Setareh is a professor and member of the faculty of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received his BSc in Structural Engineering from the Technical University of Tehran, Iran, in 1980, MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, in 1985, and PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990. Dr Setareh has taught undergraduate and graduate level structures and building systems courses to architecture and engineering students since 1990. His Structural Technology seminars have provided continuing education to hundreds of practicing architects throughout the US, in addition to helping them prepare for the Architecture Registration Examination.

Dr Setareh is a licensed professional engineer in states of Virginia and Michigan, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Concrete Institute. He has over 20 years of experience in the analysis and design of various structures using computer technology. His research on different aspects of building structures have been sponsored by the various federal and state agencies in addition to professional organizations and private industries. He has received awards for his scholarly contribution to the field of structural engineering and has numerous publications in technical journals and conference proceedings.

Robert M Darvas is Professor Emeritus of Architecture (Structures), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Darvas served from 1983 to 1986 as Chairman of the Architecture Program. He is a Registered Structural and Professional Engineer in 11 States. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Special Structures, and also serves on the Task Committee on Tensioned Fabric Structures. Professor Darvas is well recognized for his innovative and outstanding structural designs, in many different structural media; he has received numerous honor and merit awards for designs executed in reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, steel and timber. College buildings, libraries, churches, museums, public buildings, hotels, and convention centers are among his notable accomplishments. He also received two awards for his outstanding teaching. He has lectured widely in the US and overseas. His work has been widely published in journals and cited in books. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute.