• VOLUME A
    The art of construction and detailing
  • Introduction
  • The structural frame
    • Introduction
    • Structural frame elements
      • Columns
      • Beams
      • Slabs
      • Staircases
      • Foundation
    • STRUCTURAL FRAME LOADING
      • Gravity Loads
      • Seismic loads
      • Wind loading
    • BEHAVIOR OF THE STRUCTURAL FRAME
      • The behavior and reinforcement of a slab
      • Behavior and reinforcement of beams and columns
  • Construction methods
    • The materials
    • The moulds
    • Thermal insulation of structural elements
    • Concrete
      • General information
      • Ordering concrete
      • Concrete arriving on site
      • Concrete pumping
      • Concrete casting
      • Compacting concrete
      • Concrete curing
      • Removing the formwork
      • Self-compacting concrete
    • The steel
    • Reinforcement specifications of antiseismic design
      • Reinforcement covering
      • Minimum spacing between reinforcement bars
      • Rebar bending
      • Antiseismic stirrups
    • Industrial stirrups - stirrup cages
    • Standardized cross-sections of reinforced concrete elements
  • Reinforcement
    • Columns
      • Lap-splices in columns
      • Anchoring the reinforcement of the upper floor level
      • Reduction of the column’s section size along its length
      • Reinforcement in typical columns
    • Shear walls
      • General
      • Shear wall behavior
      • Shear wall’s reinforcement
      • Anchoring the horizontal rebars of the shear wall’s body
      • Lapped splices of vertical bars
      • Anchorage of vertical rebars
      • Starter bars in shear walls
    • Composite elements
    • Beams
      • General
      • Continuous beam
      • Reinforcement placement
      • Short beam
      • Beam under torsion
      • The feasibility of concrete casting in beams
    • Slabs
      • One-way slab (simply supported slab)
      • Two-way slab
      • One-way slab connected to a cantilever
      • Continuous slab connected to a cantilever
      • Ribbed slabs
      • Sandwich-voided slabs
      • RULES FOR THE DETAILING OF SLAB REBARS
    • Staircases
      • Simply supported staircase
      • Simply supported staircase continued by slabs
      • Starter bars in staircases
      • Staircase with landings
      • Winder staircase
    • Foundation
      • Spread footings
      • Frame foundation
      • Strip foundation
      • Raft foundation
      • Foundation cases
  • Quantity surveying
    • Estimation of the concrete’s quantity
    • Estimation of the formworks’ quantity
    • Estimation of the spacers’ quantity
    • Estimation of the reinforcements' quantity
      • Ground floor - Slabs
      • Ground floor – Beams
      • Ground floor - Columns
    • Total estimation of the materials’ quantities
    • Optimization of the reinforcement schedule
    • Estimation of the structural frame’s cost
    • Electronic exchange of designs - bids - orders
  • Detailing drawings
    • General
    • The drawings’ title block
    • Carpenter’s drawings
      • EXCAVATIONS and FOUNDATION FLOOR (Drawing C.10)
      • FORMWORK OF THE FOUNDATION and the basement floor (Drawing C.20)
      • FORMWORK of the BASEMENT’S ceiling (Drawing C.30)
      • FORMWORK of the GROUND FLOOR’S ceiling (Drawing C.40)
      • FORMWORK of the MEZZANINE’S ceiling (Drawing C.50)
      • FORMWORK of the MEZZANINE’S ceiling with thermal insulation (Drawing C.55)
    • Steel fixer’s drawings
  • Tables
    • Table 1
    • Table 2
    • Table 3
  • Drawings
    • Carpenter’s drawings
    • Steel fixer’s drawings
  • Model (exemplary) construction
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  • VOLUME B         
    Static and Dynamic Analysis

  • General
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Eurocodes
    • Units of measurement
    • Symbols
  • Limit States Design
    • General
    • Actions on structures
      • Nominal/ Characteristic values of loads
        • Brick masonry loads
        • Imposed loads
      • Design values of actions
      • Combinations of actions
    • Effects of actions
    • Exercise
  • Models Analysιs
    • Structural model
      • Effective span of beams and slabs [EC2 A§5.3.2.2]
      • Effective width of flanges [EC2 A§5.3.2.1]
      • Rigid body
      • Diaphragmatic function
    • Seismic loading model
    • Deformations-Stresses
      • Frame model
      • Analysis of slab
      • Analysis of frames
      • The effect of torsional stiffness on indirect beam-to-beam supports
      • Modelling frames using two-dimensional finite elements
      • Modelling slabs using bar and two-dimensional finite elements
        • The frame function in regions of columns
        • Vertical deformation of beams
        • Torsional stiffness of beams
        • Final conclusion
  • Slabs
    • General
    • Two-dimensional finite elements
      • Assumptions
      • Stress resultants and deflections
        • Example 4.2.2-1
        • Example 4.2.2-2
        • Example 4.2.2-3
      • Unfavourable loadings and envelopes of stresses - deflections
        • Example 1
        • Example 2
        • Example 3
      • Clarifications
    • Analysis using tables
      • Assumptions
      • Support moments of continuous slabs
    • Cantilevers
    • One-way slabs
      • Static analysis
      • Deflection
      • Effect of live load on the static analysis of one-way slabs
    • Two-way slabs
      • Shear forces and support reaction forces
      • Fundamental support and span moments - Deflection curves
      • Bending moments in continuous two-way slabs
      • Influence of live load
    • Slabs supported on three or two adjacent edges
    • Exercises
      • Exercise 4.9.1
      • Exercise 4.9.2
      • Exercise 4.9.3
      • Exercise 4.9.4
      • Exercise 4.9.5
      • Exercise 4.9.6
      • Exercise 4.9.7
  • Seismic behaviour
    • One-storey plane frames
      • Bending and shearing effect on deformations and stresses
      • The degree of fixity effect of columns
      • The effect of columns moment of inertia
      • The effect of columns differential height
      • Frame column stiffness
    • Coupled one-storey plane frames
    • Multistorey plane frames
      • Multistorey plane frame systems
      • Multistorey plane dual systems
      • Comparison of multistorey frame and dual systems
    • Space frames
      • Diaphragmatic behaviour
      • Centre of mass and radius of gyration
      • Centre of stiffness and elastic displacements of the diaphragm
        • Work methodology
      • Assessment of building torsional behaviour
      • One-storey space frame with rectangular columns in parallel arrangement
      • Multistorey space frame of rectangular columns in parallel arrangement
      • Exercises
        • Exercise 1
        • Exercise 2
        • Exercise 3
        • Exercise 4
  • Seismic accelerations and loadings
    • Seismic response of buildings
    • Behaviour factor q
    • Design spectrum of horizontal seismic actions
    • Dynamic analysis και natural periods of structure
    • Seismic stresses
    • Applications
      • Frame type structure
      • Wall-equivalent dual type structure
      • Approximate analysis of the frame and wall type structures
    • Loading envelopes
    • Special cases
  • Tables
    • Table B1
    • Table B2
    • Table B3
    • Table B4
    • Table B5_1
    • Table B5_2
    • Table B5_3
    • Table B5_4
    • Table B5_5
    • Table B5_6
  • APPENDIX A
  • APPENDIX B
  • APPENDIX C
  • APPENDIX D
  • APPENDIX D7
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Concrete The classification of concrete strength classes is based on their compressive strength.... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Anchor reinforcement Anchor reinforcement The distance among reinforcement bars must be such to allow the concrete’s gravel to pass be-tween them... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet The moulds The moulds The elements of the moulds used for the formation of structural reinforced concrete members are separated in four categories... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Placing rebars Placing rebars along the length of the beams (longitudinal reinforcement): An effective rule to follow in cases like this is: (a) the bars placed in beams with odd numbers 1,3,5,… to be straight and (b)...
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