Structures II [Advanced Design of Structures]
Module code: CE5A62 · Semester: Semester 2
Resources
Questions by Year
Topics
- Permissible stresses and minimum section moduli LO1, LO10
- Prestress force and eccentricity: Magnel diagrams LO10–11
- Tendon profiles and debonding LO10
- Prestress losses LO3, LO12
- Secondary effects of prestress LO13
- Ultimate moment capacity; partially prestressed members LO2, LO9
- Plastic moment redistribution LO4–5, LO14
- Yield line and Hillerborg strip analysis of slabs LO15
- Composite beams: moment and shear capacity, partial shear connection LO7–8, LO16–17
Learning outcomes
- Understand permissible stresses at SLS and ULS
- Discuss flexural strength of fully and partially prestressed concrete
- Assess prestress losses at transfer and in service
- Distinguish elastic, elasto-plastic and plastic analysis
- Locate and calculate plastic moment redistribution at ULS
- Choose between reinforced and prestressed concrete
- Describe steel-concrete composite beams and their failure modes
- Distinguish full and partial shear connection
- Do ULS analysis of prestressed members from first principles
- Choose sections, minimum prestress and tendon eccentricity
- Derive and use Magnel diagrams
- Calculate losses before and after transfer
- Evaluate parasitic (secondary) effects in indeterminate structures
- Use elasto-plastic analysis for RC beam ULS capacity
- Use yield-line analysis for RC slabs
- Calculate moment and shear capacity of composite beams
- Choose shear connector grade and number
- Visualise behaviour of beams and slabs
- Derive capacity expressions from first principles