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This course is essential for structural engineering students, postgraduate learners, and practicing engineers who want to deepen their expertise in reinforced concrete design. Advanced RC design knowledge is critical for designing high-rise buildings, bridges, and complex infrastructure subjected to heavy loads and seismic forces.

Enrolling in this course enhances design confidence, improves understanding of structural behavior, and strengthens professional competence in interpreting design codes. The course is highly valuable for consulting engineers, design firms, and professionals preparing for advanced structural engineering roles, higher studies, and competitive examinations.

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You work in Infrastructure & Construction
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Course details

The Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design course provides a thorough and analytical understanding of the behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced concrete structures under complex loading conditions. Building upon basic RC design principles, the course explores the nonlinear response of RC members, focusing on strength, serviceability, durability, and ductility requirements as per modern design philosophies.

The course begins with a detailed study of material behavior, including the stress–strain relationships of concrete and reinforcing steel, creep, shrinkage, and cracking mechanisms. Learners gain insight into limit state design, reliability concepts, and safety factors used in structural design. Advanced analysis techniques such as moment redistribution, plastic hinge formation, and load path identification are discussed to understand real structural behavior.

Special emphasis is placed on the design and detailing of complex RC structural elements, including deep beams, transfer girders, flat slabs, shear walls, and water-retaining structures. The course also addresses earthquake-resistant design, covering ductility requirements, capacity design principles, and detailing practices for seismic performance. Practical design examples, code interpretation, and failure case studies are integrated throughout the course to connect theory with real-world engineering practice.

By the end of the course, learners are equipped to perform safe, economical, and code-compliant designs for advanced reinforced concrete structures used in modern infrastructure.

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Key topics covered

Advanced limit state design philosophy
Stress–strain behavior of concrete and steel
Nonlinear behavior and cracking of RC members
Flexural design of beams and slabs
Shear, torsion, and combined loading behavior
Deflection and crack width control
Redistribution of moments in continuous members
Design of deep beams and transfer girders
Design of flat slabs and two-way slabs
Design of shear walls and core walls
Ductile detailing for seismic resistance
Design of water-retaining and special RC structures
Durability and serviceability considerations
Advanced RC detailing and construction practices

Course content

The course is readily available, allowing learners to start and complete it at their own pace.

77 lectures41 hr 11 min

Introduction-Overview of RCC - Part 1
28 min
Introduction-Overview of RCC - Part 2
30 min
Introduction to Design Concepts & Philosophies - Part 1
29 min
Introduction to Design Concepts & Philosophies - Part 2
41 min
Materials Rebar Properties
36 min
Materials Short Term Properties - Part 1
30 min
Materials Short Term Properties - Part 2
34 min
Materials Long Term Properties - Part 1
30 min
Materials Short Term Properties - Part 3
36 min
Materials Short Term Properties - Part 4
23 min
Materials Long Term Properties - Part 2
32 min
Durability-Overview
46 min
Durability-Effect of Chemical actions
29 min
Durability-Effect of Physical,mechanical and corrosion
47 min
Durability- Design approaches and code provisions
45 min
Axial Behaviour - Introduction
39 min
Axial Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete
41 min
Axial Behaviour- Effect of Compressive Strength
24 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of compressive strength on Moment curvature behaviour
14 min
Flexure Behaviour - Example-Moment curvature of singly reinforced section
36 min
Flexure Behaviour - Moment curvature analysis-procedure
49 min
Flexure Behaviour - Background to flexural theory
43 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of increasing reinforcement on Moment curvature behaviour
32 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of axial Compression on Moment curvature behaviour - Part 1
41 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of axial Compression on Moment curvature behaviour - Part 2
11 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of Compression steel on Moment curvature behaviour - Part 2
21 min
Flexure Behaviour - Effect of Compression steel on Moment curvature behaviour - Part 1
30 min
Flexure Behaviour - Analysis and Design of Doubly Reinforced Sections using IS Code
31 min
Flexure Behaviour - Analysis and Design of Singly Reinforced Sections using IS Code Part - 2
24 min
Flexure Behaviour - Analysis and Design of Flanged Sections using IS Code Provisions
18 min
Flexure Behaviour - Examples in Flexure using IS Code Provisions
25 min
Flexure Behaviour - Analysis and Design of Singly Reinforced Sections using IS Code Part - 1
35 min
Flexure Behaviour - Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 3
29 min
Flexure Behaviour - Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 1
34 min
Flexure Behaviour - Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 2
29 min
Flexure Behaviour - Shear Design using IS 456 Provisions
46 min
Flexure Behaviour - Examples for Shear Design using IS 456 Provisions
27 min
Shear Behaviour - Torsional Behaviour of RC elements - Part 1
33 min
Shear Behaviour - Torsional Behaviour of RC elements - Part 2
30 min
Shear Behaviour - Examples for Shear Design using IS 456 Provisions
27 min
Shear Behaviour - Torsion Design of RC Beams using IS 456 Provisions
32 min
Shear Behaviour - Torsional Behaviour of RC elements - Part 3
29 min
Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 2
29 min
Shear Behaviour - Shear Design using IS 456 Provisions
46 min
Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 1
34 min
Shear Behaviour of RC elements - Part 3
29 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns - Intro and Types - Part 1
40 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns - Short vs Slender and Effective length Part - 2
40 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns - Lateral Flexibility and Example - Part 3
30 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns IS Code Provisions - Part 1
37 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns Confinement and Tied Vs Spiral Confined Columns - Part 2
31 min
Compression behaviour of Slender Column Design: Theory - Part 1
43 min
Compression behaviour of Design of RC Columns for Biaxial Bending - Part 2
45 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns - P-M Interaction : Theory
35 min
Compression behaviour of RC Columns- P-M Interaction : Example as per IS 456
20 min
Compression behaviour of Slender Column Design: Example as per IS 456 - Part 2
17 min
Compression behaviour of Design of RC Columns for Biaxial Bending - Part 1
37 min
Serviceability - Numerical Example for the calculation of Deflection of RC beam
23 min
Serviceability - Long term deflection and IS code Provisions
35 min
Serviceability - Introduction to Deflection of RC Beam Part - 1
35 min
Serviceability - Introduction to Deflection of RC Beam Part - 2
34 min
Crack width calculation - Theory - Part 1
41 min
Crack width Calculation - Example Part - 2
17 min
Serviceability - Design for Bond - Theory - Part 1
26 min
Serviceability - Design example for Bond and Splicing - Part 3
18 min
Serviceability - Design for Bond- Theory - Part 2
20 min
Two way slabs - Background
31 min
Two way slabs - Design Methods
28 min
Two way slabs - Direct Design Method - Part 1
39 min
Two way slabs - Direct Design Method - Part 2
32 min
Two way slabs - Equivalent Frame Method - Part 1
45 min
Two way slabs - Equivalent Frame Method (Example) - Part 2
36 min
Introduction - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design
17 min
ETABS Tutorial Part 1 - Building Layout, Load Types & Code provisions Unlisted
10 min
ETABS Tutorial Part 2 - Preliminary Design of Beam, Slab & Column Sections
18 min
ETABS Tutorial Part 3 - 3D Modeling & Load Assignment in ETABS
55 min
ETABS Tutorial Part 4 - Analysis, Design & Result Interpretation in ETABS
52 min

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Questions and Answers

Q: Night pour in 6 hours. You're on site checking a post-tensioned transfer girder before concrete placement, and the DCS-style site alarm is that measured camber is near zero. The GA says otherwise. You're googling "post tensioned beam pre pour field verification camber tolerance". What sequence closes the risk fastest?

A: The right path preserves load path and validates force before geometry, so you confirm tendon force and profile before touching shoring and only then trust a survey. Option B changes boundary conditions and destroys the evidence. Option C assumes material properties control camber more than applied force at this stage. Option D relies on documents and eyeballing where force verification is the controlling risk.

Q: You're asked for a sanity check on a 600 mm thick mat foundation under a compressor before dawn. No FEM tonight. You're searching "back of envelope punching shear check thick mat foundation". Column load is 18 MN, column is 1.2 m square, f'c = 40 MPa. Is punching shear even in the conversation?

A: The target is to see if order-of-magnitude capacity clears demand using Vc ≈ 0.33√f'c b0 d, and it does with room to spare. Option B underestimates perimeter growth and overstates proximity. Option C invents a thickness rule that doesn't exist in ACI. Option D confuses fatigue or dynamic checks with nominal static punching capacity.

Q: Design calc review at 2 AM. You need steel area for a doubly reinforced beam section. You're searching "ACI 318 doubly reinforced beam steel area example". Given Mu = 450 kN·m, b = 300 mm, d = 550 mm, f'c = 30 MPa, fy = 500 MPa. What's the required tensile steel As assuming singly reinforced behavior is exceeded?

A: The aim is to satisfy strength with cracked section assumptions and reduced lever arm once a approaches balance, which lands near 1,600 mm². Option B drops φ and misreads lever arm at high moment. Option C applies a seismic reduction that ACI doesn't require here. Option D mixes service-level elastic checks with ultimate design.

Q: Skeleton crew, slab pour delayed but forms are stripped early on one bay. You're checking acceptance before allowing re-shoring removal and searching "early formwork removal slab deflection field check". What do you verify first?

A: The control is capacity at time of load change, so strength verification precedes geometry checks. Option B observes a symptom before confirming resistance. Option C validates detailing that no longer governs stripping risk. Option D treats time as a proxy for strength, which fails under low temperature or mix changes.