Concrete Structures

Amin Ghali is Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and several other institutions. He practices consulting engineering and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute committees, including ACI 435, Deflection of Concrete Building Structures. Renaud Favre is Emeritus Professor at the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was formerly a Member of Council and Vice President of fédération internationale du béton (fib). Mamdouh Elbadry is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. He is a structural engineering consultant and serves on several committees of the American Concrete Institute and on the fib task group on serviceability.

Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete and Relaxation of Steel. Stress and Strain of Uncracked Sections. Special Cases of Uncracked Sections and Calculation of Displacements. Time-dependent Internal Forces in Uncracked Structures: Analysis by the Force Method. Time-dependent Internal Forces in Uncracked Structures: Analysis by the Displacement Method. Analysis of Time-dependent Internal Forces with Conventional Computer Programs. Stress and Strain of Cracked Sections. Displacements of Cracked Members. Simplified Prediction of Deflections. Effects of Temperature. Control of Cracking. Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement. Analysis and Design for Fatigue. Design for Serviceability of Prestressed Concrete. Nonlinear Analysis of Plane Frames. Serviceability of Members Reinforced with Fibre Reinforced Polymers. Appendix A: Time functions for Modulus of Elasticity, Creep, Shrinkage and Aging Coefficient of Concrete. Appendix B: Relaxation Reduction Coefficient. Appendix C: Elongation, End Rotation and Central Deflection of a Beam in Terms of the Values of Axial Strain and Curvature at a Number of Sections. Appendix D: Depth of Compression Zone in a Fully Cracked T Section. Appendix E: Crack Width and Crack Spacing. Appendix F: Values of Curvature Coefficients. Appendix G: Description of Computer Programs.