DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMNETAL ENGINEERING, HKUST

CIVL 3320 Design of Reinforced Concrete

Spring 2017
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Instructor : Prof J S Kuang

TAs : Roy Huang (yhuangai), TAs coordinator for the course
[@connect.ust.hk] Phoebe Chan (ycchanar), Michele De Filippo (mdefilippo)
Rui Liang (rliangaa), Jing Zhang (jzhangci), Yang Zheng (yzhengah)
Lecture : Mon and Wed, 10.30-11.50 Venue: LTJ
Tutorial : T1: Mon 12.00-12.50; T2: Tue 18.00-18.50 Venue: LTK
Experiment : LA1: Wed 15.00-16.20; LA2: Fri 10.30-11.50
LA3: Mon 13.30-14.50 Venue: Concrete Lab (Room 1206)
Course description
Ultimate limit state design of reinforced concrete beams, slabs, staircases, columns and
beam-column joints in buildings; serviceability limit states of deflection and cracking.
Course outline
o Design codes of practice; limit state design concept
o Analysis and design for flexure and shear
o Bond, anchorage and laps in reinforcement
o Analysis and design for torsion
o Serviceability, deflection and cracking control
o Design of beams, slabs, punching shear, staircases, and columns
o Design of beam-column joints
Text
Kuang JS. Design of Reinforced Concrete, CIVL 3320 Course Notes. HKUST.
Major references (Design to BS 8110)
Mosley WH, Bungey JH and Hulse R (1999). Reinforced Concrete Design, 5th edn. Palgrave
MacMillan, Hampshire.
Bhatt P, MacGinley TJ and Choo BS (2006). Reinforced Concrete: Design Theory and
Examples, 3rd edn. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Minor references (Design to Eurocode 2)
Mosley WH, Bungey JH and Hulse R (2012). Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2, 7th
edn. Palgrave MacMillian, Hampshire.
Bhatt P, MacGinley TJ and Choo BS (2014). Reinforced Concrete: Design Theory and
Examples, 4th edn. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Codes of practice
British Standards Institution (1997). Structural Use of Concrete, BS 8110. BSI, London.
Buildings Department (2013). Code of Practice for Structural Use of Concrete 2013. The
Government of Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong. (This design code can be downloaded
from “http://www.bd.gov.hk/english/documents/index_crlist.html”)
British Standards Institution (2004). BS EN Eurocode 2:2004 Design of Concrete Structures
– Part 1-1: General Rules and Rules for Buildings. BSI, London.
Course grading
Assignments: 15%; lab reports: 5%. The assignments and lab reports are generally due one
week after they are assigned.
Final examination: 80%. Fail to take the Final Examination may incur a failing grade.