Learn how to design & verify reinforced concrete slabs step-by-step according to Eurocode 2.
This practical design guide shows you how to apply loads to slabs, model rc slabs in a finite element software, verify the slab for bending, shear and deflection and how to create reinforcement sketches from these calculations.
Are you struggling to connect uni theory to real structures?
I did as well for a very long time. That's why I wrote this book.
Watch the video to see what's inside the e-book.
Here's What's Inside the E-Book
Module #3: Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs, Masonry & RC Walls includes all structural design calculations you need to a structural documentation (according to Eurocode)
Calculation and Application of Loads
Learn how to calculate loads of internal walls and apply the characteristic area and line loads to slabs and walls.
Vertical Load Transfer
The e-book teaches how vertical load tranfer works and how to document it.
Material & Geometrical Properties
The most common materials and dimensions for residential buildings are used. This makes the e-book applicable to most countries with Eurocode.
FE Modeling of RC Slabs
Learn how to
- model reinforced concrete slabs correctly
- apply loads
- define plate elements
- mesh
- calculate internal forces
- and much more
Reinforced Concrete Design Verifications
Learn EC2 verifications for::
- Cracking
- Bending
- Shear
- Deflection
- Fire
Reinforcement Sketches
The e-book shows how to create reinforcement sketches from calculation results. A skill you don't learn in uni.
Reinforced Concrete Wall Design
- Reinforced concrete design for vertical and horizontal loads
- Fire verification of rc walls
Masonry Wall Design
- Masonry wall design for vertical and horizontal loads
- Fire verification of masonry walls
Stability Analysis
Understand how horizontal loads travel through diaphragms to shear walls into the ground. You'll learn how to:
- define and apply horizontal loads
- verify rc diaphragms
- verify shear walls
Why is Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs, Masonry & RC Walls Different to Other Textbooks?
Because it teaches you how to design a structural system - a building.
You'll learn how to transfer loads from one element to the next. You'll learn how to model the slab with finite element software, how to verify the slab with Eurocode formulas and how to create sketches from these results.
Normal textbooks only show you how to verify a beam or a column.
Because every structural concept is explained with 3D and 2D visuals. The book includes over 100 images.
Because it's short and easy to understand. No fancy words like in papers.
The reason why I created Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs, Masonry & RC Walls
Structural engineering has one big disadvantage over other industries:
There is so little practical engineering knowledge available - especially online.
Even expensive textbooks mostly just cover the theory of structural design like formulas.
Spoiler: You can't design a house only with theoretical knowledge.
In uni, you only learn how to design a simply supported reinforced concrete beam or reinforced concrete column.
Loads, cross-section and static system are given. But how do you actually get to these loads? How do these loads travel through the building to the walls (aka. load transfer)? Why do you pick a simply supported beam over a beam with fixed supports? Uni doesn't answer these questions.
All the practical knowledge is hidden in the brains of experienced engineers and on the servers of engineering firms.
This problem is exactly why I started Structural Basics in the first place back in 2022 to make my practical structural engineering knowledge from real projects available online.
After having published over 100 blog posts and newsletters, I realized that there is only so much I can teach in blog posts.
My blog posts and newsletters still miss what I mentioned above (not the right format): Teaching structural systems.
By structural systems I mean a residential building, roof, warehouse structure or bridge.
That's why decided to write the book series Structural Design of a Residential Building - to share my practical engineering knowlegde and experience with you.
And with Structural Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs, Masonry & RC Walls, you'll understand how structural systems work, because you'll learn:
