COURSE DESCRIPTION

Prestressed Concrete.
Prestressed VS reinforced concrete.
Types of prestressing.
Losses in prestressing.
Analysis and design of simple prestressed concrete members.
Introduction to various prestressing system.

Bridge Engineering
Types of bridges. Site selection
Bridge loadings. Load distribution on bridge deck.
Introduction to design of deck for a simple concrete bridge.

Advanced Structural Analysis.
Definition of matrices and determinants.
Stiffness method.
Truss element, Beam clement, Plantation of stiffness sub matrices of multiple ended members.
Flexibility method.
Introduction to structural dynamics.