Reinforced Concrete with Worked Examples

This volume deals with the design of normal and prestressed reinforced concrete structures in the light of the most recent developments both in the field of concrete and steel materials and in the field of structural modelling. The consolidated part of this evolution has been implemented by the most modern and advanced codes. Eurocode2 “Design of concrete structures” (EC2), which is under revision, is certainly among these.The arguments are presented starting from their theoretical approach and then moving on to the regulatory feedback represented by EC2.The text is accompanied by numerous numerical examples chosen from professional practice. Through this approach, the text will be of interest to both structural engineers and students of engineering and architecture. The text is developed in 12 chapters, where topics are dealt with according to the same order of EC2. Only Chap. 6, dedicated to prestressed concrete structures, does not have a corresponding section in EC2, where prestressed concrete is considered as a particular case of reinforced concrete and dealt with in various sections of the code. It will be noted that a lot of space has been given to the most innovative parts such as second-order effects, punching shear and strut-and-tie models. Eurocode 2, like all other Eurocodes, is applicable in the European Union (EU) countries only if it is accompanied by the “National Annexes”, which must be approved by the competent national authorities. They provide values of national determined parameters (NDP), the choice of which is left to the responsibility of each EU country. In the text, references to paragraphs and formulas taken from EC2 are indicated in square brackets; for example, [(3.1)] indicates the formula (3.1) of EC2. Chapters 1, 3, 6, 9, 10 and 12 were authored by Franco Angotti and Maurizio Orlando. Chapters 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 11 were authored by Piero Marro and Matteo Guiglia.