Post Tensioning Construction and Design
Course Summary
This seminar presents the latest developments in construction, design technology, and software tools. It provides you with the know-how and means for efficient, economical and expeditious designs for your post-tensioned buildings and parking structures for gravity, earthquake/wind loading.
Instructor
Dr. Bijan O. Aalami, Ph.D., P.E.,
M.ASCE
Dr. Aalami is an ASCE member, is Professor Emeritus of San
Francisco State University, Life Member of the Post-Tensioning Institute,
Chartered Engineer, and a Principal of ADAPT Corporation—a structural
engineering firm in California specializing in design of concrete structures.
He has been actively engaged in the design and construction of
numerous notable post-tensioned buildings, bridges, and special structures. A
renowned world leader and teacher in the design of concrete buildings, bridges,
special structures and post-tensioning, through his worldwide educational
seminars, Dr. Aalami has enriched the practice of many engineers in North and
Latin America, Far East, Europe, and the Middle East.
His extensive
publications on concrete design, in particular post-tensioning, are the
principal resource for practical design of post-tensioned buildings and bridges.
For the last twenty years Dr. Aalami has been the project leader of the software
suite ADAPT that is serving concrete design engineers in over 70 countries
worldwide.
Course Description
Presenting the latest developments in construction, design technology,and
software tools, this seminar provides you with the know-how and means for
efficient, economical and expeditious designs for your post-tensioned buildings
and parking structures for gravity, earthquake/wind loading. The seminar starts
with the introduction of current post-tensioning systems, hardware, and
construction practice. Next it covers the modern design concepts, and explains
in detail the design procedures, supplanted with well documented long-hand
numerical examples, along with computer application for beams, one-way and
column-supported flat slab floor systems. This leads to the concepts and design
procedure for earthquake prone regions, wind loading and catastrophic loads,
such as blasts. Next comes the Component Technology, the state-of-the-art method
for creating structural models for analysis and design of floor systems. Using
Component Technology and software application, the seminar highlights the
savings in design time and reduction in potential errors by integrating the
design process from the architectural drawings all the way to the structural
documents.
Seminar Benefits
Seminar attendees receive comprehensive course notes and reference material
including detailed design examples.
- Find out about the latest developments in post-tensioning systems and construction practice, including measures for durability and low maintenance
- Learn about the benefits and design procedures for post-tensioning in earthquake regions, and post-tensioning design for catastrophic loads
- Know the changes in ACI and IBC building codes and their impacts on your design
- Learn how you can avoid costly errors by using an integrated approach in your design from architectural drawings to structural documents
- Become skilled in tendon layout and detailing for good construction practice
- Examine the possibilities of increasing the productivity of your designs using Component Technology for seamless flow of the design process from the architectural drawings to construction documents
- Learn how to increase the reliability and economy of your designs
Who Should Attend
- Structural engineers engaged in concrete and/or post-tensioning design
- Building officials and city plan checkers
- Engineers responsible for review or investigation of post-tensioned structures
- Engineers charged with retrofit of post-tensioned buildings
- Forensic engineers who deal with post-tensioned structures
- Academics and students with interest and background in concrete design
Summary Outline
Day One
- Introduction to post-tensioning, post-tensioning systems, post-tensioning hardware
- Construction technology of post-tensioned
structures
- Preferred construction practice
- Review of design concepts of concrete floors with specific reference to post-tensioning
- Detailed design procedure of post-tensioned floors and frames
- Longhand design example of a post-tensioned column supported flat slab
- Longhand design example of a post-tensioned parking structure beam and slab
- Industry standard computer applications for
design of flat slabs, beams, and frames
- Equivalent Frame Method and beam frames (using ADAPT-PT)
- Design of post-tensioned sections using ACI-318
- Layout of post-tensioning tendons
- Detailing for tendons and rebar
- Structural Modeling of post-tensioned members
for analysis and design
- Procedures for both building and bridge designs.
Day Two
- IBC, ACI and other code provisions for design of
post-tensioned
members for gravity, wind and earthquake - Stress losses and elongation in post-tensioned tendons
- Design and detailing of post-tensioned structures for earthquake
- Response and design of post-tensioned floor systems to catastrophic loads
- One-way and punching shear design and reinforcement options for flat beams and slabs
- Key concepts and benefits in Component Technology for structural modeling and application of finite elements to design of post tensioned floor systems
- Finite element analysis and design case study of flat slab floor systems using ADAPT-FLOOR- Pro
- Hyper static (secondary) actions in post-tensioned members, their significance and determination
- Questions and discussion
