This handbook has been developed out of a need to arrive at optimal and cost-effective solutions in the process of designing reinforced concrete structures. It contains simple, yet very versatile design curves for beams, columns and slabs having different shapes, reinforcement detailing and structural elements.
Highlights :
• Unique and versatile design curves based on both limit state and working stress methods for rectangular and T-beam sections for flexure and shear and slabs for flexure
• Design curves for columns-circular, rectangular, L, T and shapes. The curves are designed for wide ranges of geometry and reinforced detailing and the method involved is direct and eliminates iteration and approximation
• Contains more than 400 design charts, illustrations and examples.
Very user friendly in its approach and abundantly illustrated, this handbook will be of high working value to civil engineers, design engineers, structural consultants and students of civil engineering.
Preface
Notations
Chapter 1 : Design Concepts
Chapter 2 : Serviceability Limit States
Chapter 3 : Flexure
Chapter 4 : Shear
Chapter 5 : Columns
Chapter 6 : Reinforcement Detailing
Appendices
A : Dead Weight of Materials
B : Live Loads on floors and Roofs
C : Maximum Bending Moments and Reactions in Beams
D : Area and Parameter of Standard Bars
E : SI Conversion Factors
F : Selected References
Index
