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COURSE TEMPLATE
1.

Department/Centre
proposing the course

Civil Engineering

2.

Course Title
(< 45 characters)

REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN

3.

L-T-P structure

4.

Credits

3-0-0
3

5.

Course number

6.

Status

Core

(category for program)

7.

Pre-requisites
(course no./title)

None

8.
Status vis--vis other courses (give course number/title)
8.1 Overlap with any UG/PG course of the Dept./Centre
No
8.2 Overlap with any UG/PG course of other Dept./Centre
8.3 Supercedes any existing course
9.

Not allowed for

(indicate program names)

10.

Frequency of offering

11.

Faculty who will teach the course

12.

Will the course require any visiting

faculty?

13.

No
No

NA

Every sem

1st sem

2nd sem

Either sem

Course objective (about 50 words):

To develop knowledge on the basic design principles of concrete structures

based on design standards
14.

Course contents (about 100 words) (Include laboratory/design activities):

Design Philosophy: Working stress and limit state design concepts; Design of
and detailing of RC beam sections in flexure, shear, torsion and bond; Design
for serviceability; Design of RC beams, One way and two way RC slabs, RC
short and long columns, RC footings.

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15.

Lecture Outline (with topics and number of lectures)

Module
no.

Topic

No. of
hours

1
2
3

Design philosophy - Working stress and limit state methods

Desing of RC beam sections for flexure using working stress method
Design of RC beam sections for flexure, shear and torsion using limit
state methods
Design of RC beam elements - detailing, curtailment and serviceability
Design of one way slabs, design of two-way slabs, design of slabs for
serviceability, design of continuous slab systems
Design of short columns under pure compression, design of short
columns under compression, and uniaxial and biaxial bending
Design of long columns
Principles of structural design of footings, design of isolated RC
footings

2
3
9

4
5
6
7
8

4
6
8
5
5

9
10
11
12

COURSE TOTAL (14 times L)

16.

Brief description of tutorial activities

17.

Brief description of laboratory activities

Module
no.

Experiment description

42

No. of
hours

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

COURSE TOTAL (14 times P)

18.

Suggested texts and reference materials

STYLE: Author name and initials, Title, Edition, Publisher, Year.

1. S.N. Sinha, Reinforced Concrete Design, Tata McGraw Hill

2. P. Dayaratnam, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Oxford and IBH Publishing
3. Wight and MacGregor, Reinforced Concrete: Mechanism and Design, Pearson

19.

Resources required for the course (itemized & student access requirements, if any)

19.1

Software

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19.2
19.3
19.4
19.5
19.6
19.7

Hardware
Teaching aides (videos, etc.)
Laboratory
Equipment
Classroom infrastructure
Site visits

20.

Design content of the course (Percent of student time with examples, if possible)

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5

Design-type problems
Open-ended problems
Project-type activity
Open-ended laboratory work
Others (please specify)

Date:

(Signature of the Head of the Department)