Contents: Introduction, historical development of structural concrete, materials and material behaviour (cement, concrete, reinforcing steel, prestressing steel), linear members (axial force, flexure and axial force, compression members and columns, shear, bending and shear, torsion and combined actions), strut-and-tie models and simple stress fields, detailing, basic aspects of membrane elements.

Contents:Prestressed concrete (introduction, prestressing systems, load-deformation response, detailing, girders, slabs), plates (introduction, yield criteria, equilibrium solutions, yield-line analysis, shear and punching, serviceability).