CIVE 632 Highrise Building Design
This course aims to introduce the design concepts for high-rise buildings made in reinforced concrete and steel. Students will learn the structural systems used in high-rise buildings, the loadings applied to them, and the analysis methods for vertical and horizontal loads (including response spectrum analysis). They will also be introduced to the inelastic response of reinforced concrete and steel members and the concepts of capacity and performance-based design of reinforced concrete and steel structures. Students will have the opportunity to apply these concepts to the preliminary design of high-rise building using ‘hand’ methods and to the detailed design, using advanced commercial software packages.
Offered
Fall