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VOLUME A
The art of construction and detailing
Introduction
The structural frame
- Introduction
- Structural frame elements
  - Columns
  - Beams
  - Slabs
  - Staircases
  - Foundation
- STRUCTURAL FRAME 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
- The steel
- Reinforcement specifications of antiseismic design
- Industrial stirrups - stirrup cages
- Standardized cross-sections of reinforced concrete elements
Reinforcement
- Columns
- Shear walls
- Composite elements
- Beams
- Slabs
- Staircases
- Foundation
Quantity surveying
- Estimation of the concrete’s quantity
- Estimation of the formworks’ quantity
- Estimation of the spacers’ quantity
- Estimation of the reinforcements' quantity
- 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
- Steel fixer’s drawings
Tables
- Table 1
- Table 2
- Table 3
Drawings
- Carpenter’s drawings
- Steel fixer’s drawings
Model (exemplary) construction

« Exercise 4.9.7 Bending and shearing effect on deformations and stresses »

Seismic behaviour

One-storey plane frames

Frames are composed of connected columns and beams behaving as one uniform structure i.e. plane frames comprise many columns connected through beams or slabs. Engineers or engineering students are more familiar with the effects of gravity loads due to their daily exposure to gravity, in contrast to the effects of horizontal seismic forces that are not a daily phenomenon.

The knowledge of classic structural analysis is a main prerequisite for understanding this chapter, which emphasizes on the assessment of structural frames seismic behaviour.

The terms of classic structural analysis describing the relative displacement between the top and base of a column, will be revisited in the following paragraphs.

« Exercise 4.9.7 Bending and shearing effect on deformations and stresses »