ACI 318-05, The Structural Concrete Standard

Free Publications   

As part of the seminar, you will receive FREE the following publication(s) a $272.00 value:

Seminar Topics   

There are many important changes in ACI 318-05. Perhaps the most welcome change is bringing consistency to the notation used in the code, which makes the code easier to use. Appendix D, Anchoring to Concrete, of ACI 318-02 introduced new provisions for design of anchors. Based on feedback from code users and on results of recent tests, Appendix D of ACI 318-05 has been expanded and greatly enhanced. Provisions for the design of anchors will be discussed in detail, and their application illustrated through several examples. Application of the unified design provisions, which were first introduced in ACI 318-02, will also be illustrated through design examples, including development of column interaction diagram. Major topics covered in this seminar include:

• Revised, improved and consistent notations throughout code
• Effect of multiple edges on anchor capacity
• Design of post-installed anchors used in cracked and uncracked concrete
• Unified design provisions for reinforced and prestressed concrete flexural and compression members
• Shear reinforcement at slab-column connections of slabs that are not part of the lateral-force-resisting system of a building in a high seismic design category
• Development length requirements in seismic force-resisting members
• Application of unified crack control criteria to flexural tension reinforcement as well as skin reinforcement in deep beams
• Alternate torsion design procedure for L-shaped solid beams that have a large height-to-width ratio

• Adjustment of allowable tension reinforcement stresses for crack control
• Shear in precast, prestressed concrete hollow-core units
• Drop panels for enhanced punching shear resistance, or for reduction of the amount of negative reinforcement over a column or to satisfyminimum required slab thickness
• Modified strength reduction factor for flexural sections within the development length of pretensioned members
• Spiral reinforcement with yield strength up to 100,000 psi
• Construction joint locations in continuous post-tensioned beams and slabs
• Clarification of design procedure for pile caps
• Reduced maximum allowable tensile stresses in the concrete of post-tensioned slabs
• Documents applicable to non-structural, soil-supported slabs

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Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. The seminar will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. Lunch will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Breakfast breads/pastries, lunch, coffee breaks, and publications are included in your registration fee.

Faculty   

Two of the following will be your instructors:

William Gene Corley, Ph.D., ACI Honorary Member, Senior Vice President, CTL Group, Skokie, IL. Corley serves as CTL’s managing agent for professional and structural engineering, and leads structural evaluation projects related to industrial, transportation and parking facilities, and bridges and buildings. He is also active in projects related to earthquake engineering. As Principal Investigator of a team, he investigated the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. He also led the team that studied building performance after the attack on New York’s World Trade Center. Corley is former Chair and a member of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; ACI 341, Earthquake-Resistant Concrete Bridges; and ACI-ASCE 343, Concrete Bridge Design. His professional affiliations include the Building Seismic Safety Council; the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute; the International Standards Association; the National Academy of Engineering; the National Council of Structural Engineer Associations; and RILEM, just to name a few. He has published more than 170 papers and books with more than 90 on bridge design and/or seismic design.

S. K. Ghosh, PhD, FACI, President, S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc., Palatine, IL and Laguna Niguel, CA, and Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Ghosh is known internationally for his work in earthquake engineering and specializes in analysis and design, including earthquake resistant design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. He is an ACI Fellow, and serves on ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and ACI-ASCE-TMS 530 Masonry Standards Joint Committee. He is a former member of the ACI Technical Activities Committee and currently serves on the ACI Board of Direction. Ghosh served for many years on the Board of Direction of the Building Seismic Safety Council and is currently a member of the Provisions Update Committee of that organization. He currently serves on the Board of Direction of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and is a member of ASCE Committee 7 on Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. He is active on many other national technical committees. He has published many papers and books on seismic and concrete design; he has also investigated and reported on structural performance in many earthquakes.

Neil M. Hawkins, PhD, FACI, FPCI, MASCE, Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, and Adjunct Professor, University of Washington. Hawkins is a consulting member of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, several 318 subcommittees, and chairs the ACI 318 Task Group on Foundation Design. He is a member of ACI 215, Fatigue of Concrete; ACI 408, Bond and Development of Reinforcement; ACI-ASCE 445, Shear and Torsion; ACI 446, Fracture Mechanics; ACI-ASCE 550, Precast Concrete Structures: and ITG-5, Seismic Design of Unbonded Post-tensioned Precast Concrete Walls Systems. He also serves on several technical committees of ASCE and its Structural Engineering Institute where he is a member of the ASCE/SEI Main Committee 7 on Minimum Design Loads and a member of its Seismic Task Committee where he chairs the concrete structures sub-committee. He is a member of the Building Seismic Safety Council’s Provisions Update Committee, and serves or has served on committees of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Post-Tensioning Institute, the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Over the years, Hawkins has received numerous awards for his research and the transfer of research results into practice, and he has authored or co-authored over 200 publications.

Dominic J. Kelly, MS, PE, SE, Consulting Structural Engineer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc, Boston, MA. Kelly has 20 years experience in the design of new structures, the evaluation of existing structures, the repair of damaged structures, and the strengthening of deficient structures. He is called on frequently to perform structural adequacy and failure analyses. He is an active participant in the committee work of several professional associations. Kelly is currently a member of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and its subcommittees on Shear and Torsion and on Safety, Serviceability, and Analysis. He is a member of ASCE 7 Seismic Task Committee, which prepares seismic design provisions referenced by the model building codes.

Basile G. Rabbat, PhD, SE, Honorary Member of ACI, Manager, Structural Codes, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois. Rabbat received his MS and PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has published over fifty papers related to the behavior and design of structural concrete. He serves as Secretary of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; and is a member of ACI 215, Fatigue of Concrete. He is a Fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and serves on the PCI Committee on Bridges, and the Research Committee. Rabbat’s other professional affiliations include the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Transportation Research Board. He is a licensed structural engineer in the State of Illinois.

NOTE: ACI is not responsible for the statements or opinions expressed by the Faculty. If necessary to substitute an instructor an individual with similar qualifications will be used.