• 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