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Bare Essentials of Reinforced Concrete 2: How does does a reinforced concrete beam resist bending?

FACT FILE

  • Presenter
    Professor Tim Ibell, Associate Dean at the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath
  • Series Title
    Bare Essentials of Reinforced Concrete
  • Series Sponsor
    CITB and Construct
  • Licence
    This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

World-leading reinforced concrete expert Professor Tim Ibell introduces viewers to reinforced concrete. This is the second in the Bare Essentials of Concrete series: the key things people who are studying construction or who are working in construction need to understand about concrete.

Professor Ibell is Associate Dean at the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. In this video he describes the underlying reasons why we reinforce concrete, how concrete and steel work together and the main principles that engineers apply to produce reinforced concrete structures.

 

Learning outcomes

  • Cracking in a concrete beam.
  • Failure modes.
  • The impact of over- and under-reinforcing a concrete beam.
  • How much steel should an engineer use.

 

About the Bare Essentials of Concrete Series

This video is part of the Bare Essentials of Concrete Series, funded by CITB and Construct, in which Tim Ibell draws on his many years of practice as a leading researcher in concrete and in teaching to provide viewers with what he regards to be the key knowledge that construction professionals need to understand about reinforced concrete. Accompanying this series are two related series: the Bare Essentials of Concrete; and the Bare Essentials of Pre-stressed Concrete.

 

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