Konstantinidis Apostolos Earthquake Resistant Buildings from Reinforced Concrete Volume A The Art of Construction and Detailing
Contents of Earthquake Resistant Buildings
- The structural frame
- Introduction
- Structural frame elements
- Columns
- Beams
- Slabs
- Staircases
- Foundation
- Structural frame loading
- Gravity loads
- Seismic loads
- Wind loading
- Behavior of the structural frame
- The behavior and reinforcement of a slab
- Behavior and reinforcement of beams and columns
- The way the elements of the structural system are being constructed
- The materials
- The moulds
- Thermal insulation of structural elements
- Concrete
- General information
- Ordering concrete
- Concrete arriving on site
- Concrete pumping
- Concrete casting
- Compacting concrete
- Concrete curing
- Removing the formwork
- Self-compacting (self consolidating) concrete
- The steel
- Reinforcement specifications of antiseismic design
- Reinforcement covering
- Minimum spacing between reinforcement bars
- Rebar bending
- Antiseismic stirrups
- Industrial stirrups – stirrup cages
- Standardized cross-sections of reinforced concrete elements
- Reinforcement in structural elements
- Columns
- Lap-splices in columns
- Anchoring the reinforcement of the upper floor level
- Reduction of the column’s section size along its length
- Reinforcement in typical columns
- Shear walls
- General
- Shear wall’s behavior
- Shear wall’s reinforcement
- Anchoring the horizontal rebars of the shear wall’s body
- Lap-splices of vertical bars
- Anchorage of vertical rebars
- Starter bars in shear walls
- Composite elements
- Beams
- General
- Continuous beam
- Reinforcement placement
- Short beam
- Beam under torsion
- The feasibility of concrete casting in beams
- Slabs
- One-way slab (simply supported slab)
- Two-way slab
- One-way slab connected to a cantilever
- Continuous slab connected to a cantilever
- Ribbed slabs
- Sandwich slabs
- Rules for the detailing of slab rebars
- Staircases
- Simply supported staircase
- Simply supported staircase continued by slabs
- Starter bars in staircases
- Staircase with landings
- Winder staircase
- Foundation
- Spread footings
- Frame foundation
- Strip foundation
- Raft foundation
- Foundation cases
- Quantities surveying-Cost estimation
- Estimation of the concrete’s quantity
- Estimation of the formworks’ quantity
- Estimation of the spacers’ quantity
- Estimation of the reinforcements’ quantity
- Total estimation of the materials’ quantities
- Optimization of the reinforcement schedule
- Estimation of the structural frame’s cost
- Electronic exchange of designs – bids – orders
- Detailing drawings for the structural frame’s construction
- General
- The drawings’ title block
- Carpenter’s drawings
- EXCAVATIONS and FOUNDATION FLOOR
- FORMWORK OF THE FOUNDATION and the basement floor
- FORMWORK of the BASEMENT’S ceiling
- FORMWORK of the GROUND FLOOR’S ceiling
- FORMWORK of the MEZZANINE’S ceiling
- FORMWORK of the MEZZANINE’S ceiling with thermal insulation
- Steel fixer’s drawings
