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The End of the Reinforced Concrete Series (Ep. #29)
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Hi friends, Today is the very last episode of the reinforced concrete series. It's crazy! We have now covered concrete for the last 8+ months. It's so much knowledge. For this knowledge, people pay hundreds of dollars to learn this in university classes and seminars. Much of the knowledge you don't even learn in uni. Especially the real world examples that I learned and use in my job as a structural engineer. We started with episode #1 on the 2nd of October 2024. Today, we'll summarize the reinforced concrete series and I am excited to share with you a new product. New Product: Newsletter Archive + SpecialsOn the last weekends I was working on making all of the newsletters from the reinforced concrete series available online. For only 5β¬/month you can now access them all here: https://structuralbasics.kit.com/products/exclusive-newsletterβ
And of course all future newsletters! All newsletter can be accessed β here β. A few are for free but most you can only access with the membership. (We'll summarize all newsletters from the reinforced concrete series down below.) With the membership, you will also get 30% off Loads on Residential Buildings and all future products. (I am hoping to finish module #2 in August, and 2 more books until the end of the year). I am also thinking of including a monthly group call where all members can join and ask questions. But only if there is enough interest in this membership.
If more than 20 people sign up for the membership and answer with Yes I will do it! π₯ We can experiment with this call. You could use the time to ask questions or I could present a structural engineering topic in depth. The summary of the reinforced concrete seriesWe started out the series by introducing the properties of concrete and reinforcement and the design verfications of reinforced concrete that you need for most elements like beams, slabs, columns, etc. Below you can see which articles you can access for free and which once you can access when you are join the 5β¬/month members community (=paid):
Then we also covered fundamentals of any reinforced concrete design like:
And methods that are essential for reinforced concrete:
Then we continued by showing all design and verification steps of designing rc elements:
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TΓ³mas Ellert TΓ³masson, Structural Engineer from Iceland
Final WordsAlright, wow! This was really the last episode of the reinforced concrete series! It's time for a new series. Hope to see you next Wednesday for the announcement of the new series. As mentioned earlier, all future episodes can also be accessed with the Structural Basics membership: https://structuralbasics.kit.com/products/exclusive-newsletterβ Enjoy the rest of the week and your weekend. Letβs design better structures together, Laurin. ββ Follow me on Social Media. β |
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