The full-day course will be delivered on the web using Zoom.

Reinforced concrete stands as the primary cornerstone of the construction industry. Most undergraduate courses in reinforced concrete design focus on essential but basic structural elements, including the ultimate limit state design of conventional beams, one-way and two-way slabs, and short columns in buildings, as well as the fundamental understanding of the serviceability limit states related to deflection and cracking. However, the undergraduate civil engineering curricula do not cover many practical but very useful designs of typical reinforced concrete structural elements. This CPD series of courses on reinforced concrete design is organized to fill the gap between academia and industry, providing practicing engineers with in-depth knowledge in the day-to-day design of reinforced concrete. 

The strut-and-tie model (STM) is a structural idealization that has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing, designing, and detailing structural concrete subjected to shear, bending, axial forces, or combinations of these actions. Both EC2 and ACI-318 include provisions for the use of strut-and-tie methods, encouraging their broader adoption in practice. However, clear and straightforward guidance on their application is limited to EC2 and indeed elsewhere. 

This one-day Web-CPD course provides a comprehensive introduction to strut-and-tie modeling for the design and analysis of structural concrete elements. The course covers the theoretical basis and failure criteria of strut-and-tie models, as well as their relevance to modern concrete design codes, providing guidance and fostering a deeper understanding of their development and application. Practical design examples of key structural concrete members, including deep beams, hammerhead pier caps, half-joints (dapped-end beams), etc., analyzed and designed using the strut-and-tie method, are presented and discussed.    

Course Outline:

• • Strut-and-tie modelling

  • B-region and D-region in structural concrete members 

  • Failure criteria and development of strut-and-tie models (STMs)

  • Discontinuous stress fields and corresponding STMs 

  • Practical design examples using STMs, including deep beams, hammerhead pier caps, half-joints (dapped-end beams), and others 

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