introduction
1.1 general concepts
1.2 history and development of reinforced concrete
1.3 materials
1.4 application of reinforced concrete
2 mechanical behavior of materials
2.1 concrete
2.1.1 grade of concrete strength
2.1.2 aal pressive strength
2.1.3 aal tensile strength
2.2 concrete behaviors in pression and failure mechanism
2.2.1 structure of hardened concrete
2.2.2 properties of concrete under short-term uniaal pressive loa
2.3 elasticity modulus of concrete ec and poissons ratio
2.3.1 modulus of elasticity of concrete
2.3.2 two methods for evaluation of ee
2.3.3 poissons ratio of concrete
2.4 constitutive relation and deformation of concrete
2.5 effect of lateral confinement of transverse reinforcement on the σ-ε relationship of concrete under pression
2.6 mechanical properties of concrete subjected to multiaal stress states
2.7 time-dependent strains of concrete/shrinkage and creep of concrete
2.7.1 shrinkage of concrete
2.7.2 creep of concrete
2.8 reinforcement
2.8.1 types of steel reinforcement
2.8.2 prestressing steel products
2.8.3 characteristic strength and modulus of elasticity of reinforcing steel and prestressing steel
2.8.4 thermal expansion
2.8.5 relaxation
2.9 bond between steel and concrete
3 limit state design
3.1 development of the design method
3.2 limit state of structure
3.2.1 limit state design based on the probability theory
3.2.2 limit state design philosophy
3.2.3 brief review of statistical concepts
3.3 function of the structure
3.3.1 ultimate limit state (uls)
3.3.2 serviceability limit state (sls)
3.4 action effect, resistance effect, and reliability
3.4.1 failure probability and reliability
3.4.2 characteristic value of action effect sk and resistance effect rk
3.5 discussion of "limit state design" and "design value" based on bs 8110 [14]
4 reinforced concrete beams
4.1 a general theory for flexural behavior
4.1.1 ben elements
4.1.2 ben experiment
4.2 general theory for flexural behavior of rc beam
4.2.1 three stages of rc beam under ben
4.2.2 effect of steel ratio on the failure pattern of rc beam under ben
4.3 analysis of section stress subjected to ben
4.3.1 characteristics of stress block of the beam in stage i
4.3.2 equivalent rectangular stress distribution
4.4 balanced-, over-reinforced, and under-reinforced beams
4.5 calculation of rectangular beams with reinforcement
4.5.1 singly reinforced section
4.5.2 doubly reinforced beams--section with pression reinforcement
4.5.3 derivation of design formulae referring to ref. [13] based on bs 8110 [14]
4.6 flanged beam and t-beam
4.6.1 effective flange width of t-section
4.6.2 analysis and design of t-section
5 diagonal section strength under flexure
6 torsion
7 pression members--columns
8 tension members
9 limit state of serviceability
10 prestressed concrete
11 girder-beam-slab system
appendix a: main parameters of concrete, bars, and tendons
appendix b: internal force factors of continues beam with equal span subjected to uniformly distributed load and concentrated load
references