Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Reinforced concrete members, slabs, beams, columns, foundations, concrete, reinforcing steel, mechanical properties of concrete and steel
2	Loads, dead and live loads, load combinations, structural safety, limit states, behavior of reinforced concrete, ultimate strength design principles
3	Mechanics of RC beam, parabola+rectangular stress block, stress block, balanced beam, over and under reinforced beams
4	Beams with compression reinforcement, flanged beams, effective flange width
5	Cracking, mechanism of bond transfer, development of anchorage and splicing of reinforcement
6	Tied and spiral columns under uniaxial loading, eccentrically loaded columns, column interaction diagram
7	Bi-axially loaded columns
8	Slender column behavior, moment magnification method
9	Shear force effects, diagonal tension stresses
10	Providing shear safety, use of stirrups and bent-up bars, moment capacity diagram
11	SPRING BREAK
12	RC members subjected to torsion, design for torsion, shear and torsion
13	Elastic analysis of beams with rectangular cross-sections, comparison with ultimate strength method, serviceability, moment-curvature relationship, ductility
14	RC frames, beam-column joints, redistribution, construction knowledge
15	Pre-stressed concrete, general information