Concrete Structures (3cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

Occupational and environmental safety in construction
Students know how to manage the construction of concrete structures and occupational safety issues.

Competence in structural engineering
Students are familiar with those properties of concrete and reinforcing steels, which affect the function and strength of structures, and they know the main principles of concrete-steel interaction. Students know how to determine stresses of simple structural members. They are competent in determining design strengths of concrete and reinforced steels, in designing common reinforced concrete cross sections and in determining their bending and shear resistance. Students know how to design simple reinforced concrete cross sections subject to compressive normal force. They know how to determine anchoring, joints and shear lengths in simple reinforcement cases. They also know how concrete deformation affects the design.

Competence in the construction process
The student is familiar with applying different structural members and structural instructions of structural member cast on site. The student is able to recognise the differences between structural members cast on site and precast structural members and their special requirements. The students is able to acknowledge the requirements of building services engineering on the framework and to determine the need for reinforcement in them.

Content

- basics of structural design
- design strength of concrete and reinforcing steels
- design of steel reinforcement, minimum distances of steel reinforcement
- cooperation of concrete and steel reinforcement
- design and reinforcement drawings of simple reinforced concrete structures
- effect of the follow-up steps and molding on concrete creep
- reinforcing the joints in concrete structures
- site visits
- laboratory work

Materials

Eurocodes/regulations on concrete structures (partly).

RunkoRYL General quality criteria for frame structures in house building

Textbook on the design of concrete structures – part 1 2013 (in Finnish)

Textbook on the design of concrete structures – part 2 2014 (in Finnish)

Lecturer's own material

Teaching methods

Lectures, laboratory work, assignments and excursion.

Student workload

Total work load of the course: 160 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to define the minimum measurements of concrete structures, considering the risk of corrosion. The student knows the matters affecting the choice of material.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

.The student is able to define the calculation strengths of concrete and reinforcement steel and plan a usual cross section of reinforced concrete in simple cases. The student is able to recognise the most important structural members of concrete structures and different joints and supports.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

In addition to the abilities above, the student has good command of what they have learned and is able to apply it. They can also analyze the connections between different things. The student can make diversified analyses and draw conclusions based on what they have learned.

Qualifications

Construction Materials, Plans in Construction, Construction Design, Concrete Technology, Basics of Structural Design, Concrete Construction