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 + Specials

On the last weekends I was working on making all of the newsletters from the reinforced concrete series available online.

For only 5€/month you can now access them all here: https://structuralbasics.kit.com/products/exclusive-newsletter​

And of course all future newsletters!

All newsletter can be accessed → here ←. 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! 🔥

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 series

We 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 5€/month members community (=paid):

• ​Introduction to the reinforced concrete series (Ep. #1) - free
• ​Material properties of concrete and reinforcement (Ep. #2) - paid
• ​Compression verification of reinforced concrete (Ep. #3) - paid
• ​Bending verification of reinforced concrete (Ep. #4) - paid
• ​Shear verification WITHOUT shear reinforcement (Ep. #5) - paid
• ​Shear verification WITH shear reinforcement (Ep. #6) - paid
• ​Torsion verification WITH shear reinforcement (Ep. #7) - paid
• ​Punching shear of flat slabs (Ep. #8) - paid
• ​The creep coefficient (important for crack analysis) (Ep. #9) - paid
• ​Crack verification of reinforced concrete beams (Ep. #10) - paid
• ​Deflection analysis of reinforced concrete elements like beams (Ep. #13) - paid

Then we also covered fundamentals of any reinforced concrete design like:

• ​Anchorage lengths: How to anchor rebars correctly (Ep. #11) - paid
• ​Calculation of the lap length of rebars (Ep. #12) - paid

And methods that are essential for reinforced concrete:

• ​The strut & tie method to design corbels, pile caps and frame corners (Ep. #14) - paid
• ​How to use beam analysis software to calculate internal forces and deflections - free

Then we continued by showing all design and verification steps of designing rc elements:

• ​Design of reinforced concrete beams (Ep. #15) - free
• ​How to design reinforced concrete beams with software (Ep. #16) - free
• ​Design of rc T-sections (Ep. #17) - paid
• ​Design of reinforced concrete columns (Ep. #18) - paid
• ​Design of reinforced concrete columns with software (Ep. #19) - free
• ​Design and verification of pile caps using the strut & tie method (Ep. #20) - paid
• ​Design of precast concrete shear walls (Ep. #21) - paid
• ​Design of reinforced concrete walls (Ep. #22) - paid
• ​Design of reinforced concrete frames (Ep. #23) - free
• ​How to design flat slabs (Ep. #24) - paid
• ​Design of reinforced concrete slabs with finite element software (Ep. #25) - free
• ​Diaphragm action: horizontal load distribution of reinforced concrete slabs (Ep. #26) - paid
• ​Design & verification of rc slabs for horizontal loads (Ep. #27) - paid
• ​Concrete anchor design (Ep. #28) - paid

If you are new to the newsletter and doubt the quality of the articles, here are what other's are saying about it.

Final Words

Alright, 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-newsletter​

Enjoy the rest of the week and your weekend.

Let’s design better structures together,

Laurin.

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