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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

« Wind loading The behavior and reinforcement of a slab »

BEHAVIOR OF THE STRUCTURAL FRAME

Reinforced concrete is composed of two materials, concrete and reinforcement. The rein-forcement is usually made out of steel and rarely, at least for the time being, is made out of syn-thetic materials, the so-called composites.

The reinforcement is divided in two basic categories: (a) the longitudinal reinforcement in the form of rebars and (b) the transverse reinforcement mainly in the form of stirrups.

In order to understand the behavior of a reinforced concrete structural frame, we will assume two simple examples, a simply supported slab and a frame composed of two columns and a beam.

« Wind loading The behavior and reinforcement of a slab »