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Course Detail

Course Name Advanced Concrete Design
Course Code 23CIE331
Program B. Tech. in Civil Engineering
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1

Design of buildings, Design of staircase – Design of long columns – Design of Structural walls – Design of corbels – Grid slabs – Slabs at grade – Design of Spherical and Conical Domes – detailing – Preparation of design sheets for structural elements

Unit 2

Earth Retaining structures – Retaining walls- types – cantilever and counterfort – Analysis of earth retaining structures using commercially available software – design of retaining wall – drainage and construction details. Liquid Retaining structure – Water tanks – types – square, rectangular, circular – Analysis of water retaining structures using commercially available software- Design of underground and elevated tanks – design of staging. Design of circular silo using Jansen’s theory – Preparation of design sheets for earth and water retaining structures

Unit 3

Introduction to bridge and its components – Analysis of bridge deck using commercially available software- Bridges – Slab Bridge – Design of single span slab bridge – Tee Beam Bridge with cross girders.

Term Project

Objectives and Outcomes

Prerequisite(s): 19CIE303 Basic Reinforced Concrete Design

Course Objectives

The course focuses on understanding the behavior, design and detailing of reinforced concrete retaining walls, storage structures and Bridge components according to the Indian standard building code requirements and on par with current Industry practices

Course Outcome

CO1: Design the structural elements in a building

CO2: Analysis Design of earth retaining and liquid retaining systems

CO3: Design Bridge super structure

CO-PO Mapping

PO/PSO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO 11 PO 12 PSO1 PSO2 PSO3
CO
CO1 3 2 3 2
CO2 3 2 2 3 2
CO3 3 3 3 2 2 1 3 2 2

Text Books / References

Text Book(s)

Jain A.K., “Reinforced Concrete – Limit State Design- 7th Edition”, Nem Chand & Bros., 2012

Varghese P.C., “Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design”, PHI, 2010.

N.KrishnaRaju, “Design of bridges”, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Reference(s)
N.Krishnaraju, “Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design”, CBS Publisher, 2016

R.D. Anchor., “Design of Liquid Retaining Concrete Structures – Second edition” British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1992.

D.Johnson Victor, “Essentials of bridge engineering”, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Mosley. B., John B., & Ray Hulse “Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode-2”Red Globe Press, 2012.

BIS codes (IS 456 -2000, IS 4995 – 1978 Part (I&II), IS 3370- 2009 Part I&II), IS3370 – 1967 Part IV, IS1893-2016 PART 1, IS13920-2016, SP16-1980, SP24-1983, SP34-1999)

IRC Codes (IRC 5 – 2015, IRC 6-2017, IRC 112-2011, IRC SP105-2015, IRC SP13-2004)

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