Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2018-19
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2018-19
Course context for academic year 2018-19
"Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures" is a compulsory subject from the sixth semester of the Undergraduate Program in Civil Engineering. In order to reach a satisfactory level of achievement it is recommended that the students are already proficient with the following competences:
- Analysis of geometric parameters of cross sections: baricentres, first and second moments of inertia.
- Construction materials in civil engineering, more specifically, cement designation and properties and steel properties.
- Analysis of statically determinate structures: simply supported beams, cantilevers and trusses.
- Analysis of statically indeterminate structures: continuous beams and 2D frames.
- Use of structural software for structural analysis (e.g. SAP2000 or similar), as well as programming with datasheets (e.g. Excel or similar).
The subject is organized in the following activities: seminars, group tutorials and computer aided sessions.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
UA Basic Transversal Competences
- CT-10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
- CT-11 : Capacity to learn and apply new concepts and methods in an autonomous and interdisciplinary fashion.
- CT-12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
- CT-14 : Capacity for self-criticism needed to analyse and improve the quality of projects.
- CT-8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
- CT-9 : Capacity for group work.
Specific Competences (Civil Branch)
- CE-6 : Understand the behaviour of reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete and metal structures, and capacity to conceive, design, build and maintain these kinds of structures.
Basic Transversal Competences
- CB-3 : Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) to give opinions that include a reflection on important, social, scientific, ethical matters, etc.
- CB-5 : Students should have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake later studies with a high level of autonomy.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2018-19
- Applied knowledge of the technological properties and behaviour models of concrete, steel rebars and steel tendons, both individually and globally, for resisting mechanical and chemical actions.
- Competence for understanding and application of the European standard (EUROCODE 2, EN-1992) for the design and construction of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.
- Applied knowledge of the different structural analysis methods for concrete structures according to European standards.
- Competence for projecting, designing, building and conservating concrete structures of moderate complexity.
- Competence for analysis and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete beams and slabs.
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