Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

"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, as well as programming with spreadsheets (e.g. Excel or similar).
The subject is organized in the following activities: seminars, group tutorials and computer aided sessions.

CONNECTION WITH THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG):

  • SDG 09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities

DIGITALIZATION:

  • Programming of spreadsheet applications for structural concrete design
  • Use of professional BIM software for structural analysis and design (Robot Structural Analysis)

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT10 : Capacity to confront, plan and solve real problems demanded by society in the field of engineering.
  • CT11 : Capacity to learn and apply new concepts and methods in an autonomous and interdisciplinary fashion.
  • CT12 : Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology when developing one's professional career.
  • CT14 : Capacitat d'autocrítica necessària per a l'anàlisi i millora de la qualitat d'un projecte.
  • CT8 : Capacity to plan tasks and commit oneself to satisfying goals and deadlines.
  • CT9 : Capacity for group work.

 

Specific Competences (Civil Branch)

  • CE6 : 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

  • CB3 : That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make judgements that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • CB5 : 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 2024-25

  • Applied knowledge of the technological properties and behaviour models of concrete, steel rebars and steel tendons, both individually and globally, to resist mechanical and chemical actions.
  • Ability to understand and apply 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 in the project, design contruction and maintenance of reinforced concrete structures of moderate complexity.
  • Applied knowledge of the behaviour and design of statically determinate prestressed concrete members with pre-tensioned tendons, and of the materials and construction systems involved.

 

 

General

Code: 33521
Lecturer responsible:
Varona Moya, Francisco de Borja
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Area: ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 0
  • Dept: CIVIL ENGINEERING
    Area: CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught