2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Structural Design II
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hisato Hotta / Koshiro Nishimura / Zelin Wang
- Class Format
- Lecture/Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- ARC.S302
- Number of credits
- 210
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course introduces the outline of structural design method for concrete composite structures, especially reinforced concrete frame structures.
Students understand the outline of structural design method for concrete composite structures, especially reinforced concrete frame structures.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will
1) understand structural detail of R/C structures,
2) calculate allowable and ultimate strength of R/C members,
3) calculate horizontal load bearing capacity of R/C frames and their design requirement,
4) know how factors originated from structural characteristics influence seismic behavior of R/C structures.
Keywords
Reinforced concrete structure, frame structure, seismic design, allowable stress design, ultimate strength
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Former 90 minutes for lecture and later 45 minutes for exercise.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | properties of materials, characteristics of reinforced concrete structures, and basis of their structural design | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 2 | members subject to bending: flexural theory for beams | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 3 | members subject to bending: allowable bending moment and balanced reinforcement ratio for beams | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 4 | members subject to bending and axial compression: allowable bending moment for columns | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 5 | members subject to bending and axial compression: ultimate flexural strength obtained from nonlinear section analysis | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 6 | members subject to bending and axial compression: ultimate flexural strength obtained from additional theorem | |
| Class 7 | members subject to shear: design shear based on favorable failure mode of members and structures | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 8 | members subject to shear: empirically obtained ultimate and crack strength | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 9 | bond and anchorage of reinforcing bars | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 10 | beam-column joint panels | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 11 | bearing walls: flexural and shear strength | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 12 | bearing walls: boundary effect due to surrounding beams in frames | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 13 | seismic design method: 1st and 2nd stage design | Understand content of a lecture. |
| Class 14 | seismic design method: horizontal load bearing capacity of frames and its design requirement, etc | Understand content of a lecture. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京工業大学学修規程) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Graduate Learning (東京工業大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
AIJ standard for structural calculation of reinforced concrete structures ISBN:978-4818905917(Japanese)
Hayashi S. et al, reinforced concrete structures, Ichigaya Shuppan ISBN:978-487071501(Japanese)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Scores are based on final examination and exercises.
Related courses
- ARC.S301 ： Structural Design I
- ARC.S203 ： Structural Mechanics I
- ARC.A302 ： Environmental and Structural Engineering Laboratory I
Prerequisites
It is recommended that students successfully complete Structural Mechanics I: ARCS203 and Environmental and Structural Engineering Laboratory I: ARCA302.