Design of Reinforced Concrete Using the ACI Code: Bond, Development Lengths, and Splices

This course has been discontinued.

• Explain why bars are cut off or bended and how bond stresses are affected by this.
• Identify factors that affect bond stresses and explain how these factors influence bond stresses.
• Provide the allowable development lengths values for deformed bars, deformed and plain welded wires in tension, standard hooks, and lightweight aggregate concrete as dictated by the ACI.
• Calculate where to cut off bar provided with a beam’s compression stress and yield stress.
• Identify the correct label, symbol, and definition of each term in the ACI Equation 12-1.
• Calculate the developmental length for bars reinforcing tension, bundled bars, bars with hooks, welded wire fabric, and compression bars using the appropriate formulas for each situation.
• Summarize how critical sections of a bar, combined shear and moment, and the shape of a moment diagram can affect a development length.
• List the conditions under which a shear failure can occur.
• Explain the purpose of the different types of bar splices, tension splices, and compression splices.
• Explain the purpose of headed deformed bars and list its limitations.