The objective of this course is to assist a licensed design professional, practicing structural engineers, forensic structural engineers, consulting engineers, building officials, educators, students or/and a licensed general contractor to deeply know, and understand how to the precast concrete structures structurally behave. The importance of this course lies in the fact that there are not a sufficient number of references dealing with this topic, so the course was designed to be an important guide for the structural engineers those working in this field.

Learning Objectives

• Gaining a general overview on the commonly used precast concrete building systems
• Gaining a general overview on the assembly of precast building systems
• Gaining a general overview on the braced and unbraced precast concrete frame systems
• Gaining a general overview on the statically model of skeletal frame for horizontal and vertical forces
• Gaining a general overview on the statically model of panel system for vertical and horizontal forces
• Gaining a general overview on the slab wall precast structures.
• Gaining a general overview on the stability of statically determinate slab-wall precast system
• Gaining a general overview on the resolution of horizontal forces in walls
• Gaining a general overview on the statically model of wall system for the transfer of wind load
• Gaining a general overview on the horizontal and vertical load transfer of determinate discontinuous slab-wall precast system
• Gaining a general overview on the statically indeterminate slab-wall precast systems
• Gaining a general overview on the wall system subjected to torsion
• Gaining a general overview on the connections and shear wall behavior
• Gaining a general overview on the normal and shear stresses in wall subjected to non-uniform vertical load
• Gaining a general overview on the analyses of shear walls subjected to horizontal forces by continuous layer method
• Gaining a general overview on the structural integrity and design for progressive collapse of precast concrete structures
• Familiarizing with many detailed hand-on examples