Spring 2027

Concrete Structures I

Concrete Structures I covers behavior, design, and proportioning of reinforced concrete elements, including beams, columns, and continuous beams for strength and serviceability.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jose Pincheira Pena

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.30 GPA, 43.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.23 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.27 GPA, 54.1% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Compute required strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load, as well as moment and shear envelopes of design using the load factors and load combinations specified by the current building code requirements for structural concrete

  • Perform a structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete members with rectangular and T-shaped sections subjected to flexure and shear (beams)

  • Perform a structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete members subjected to combined flexure and axial loads (columns)

  • Develop technically feasible alternative solutions to a problem, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions as the preferred option

  • Compute required and design strengths for flexure, shear, and axial load for reinforced concrete members using commonly available structural analysis and design software

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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CIV ENGR 340, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

    • CIVENGR 340
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students
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    • CIVENGR 340
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.30 GPA, 43.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.23 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.27 GPA, 54.1% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Behavior of reinforced concrete structural elements.
  • Background of specification requirements.
  • Strength design of beams, columns, and members under combined axial load and bending.
  • Continuous beams.
  • Structural analysis and design of beams with rectangular and T-shaped sections.

Skills

  • Design and proportioning reinforced concrete sections for strength and serviceability.
  • Apply strength design to beams, columns, and members under combined axial load and bending.
  • Compute required strengths and envelopes for flexure, shear, and axial load per building codes.
  • Develop, compare, and recommend technically feasible alternative engineering solutions.
  • Use structural analysis and design software for reinforced concrete member calculations.

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About this comparison

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UW–Madison

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CIVENGR 447 · Spring 2027

Concrete Structures I

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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