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Description

This seminar illustrates and discusses the detailing requirements for special shear walls and coupling beams of concrete. It is designed to be helpful in understanding the detailing rules and their proper application. The following topics are included:

1. Design for shear and design for flexure and axial loads
2. The importance of specially confined boundary zones and how they enhance shear wall performance
3. The two different approaches to determining the need for special boundary elements and which one is to be used for a given situation
4. Detailing requirements for coupling beams and difficulties of confining diagonal reinforcement
5. Provisions, first added in ACI 318-08, which make coupling beam detailing much easier
6. Important requirements concerning wall piers
7. Important changes in shear wall detailing requirements from ACI 318-11 to ACI 318-14.

This web seminar will also include three question-and-answer periods

Speaker Bio

Dr. S. K. Ghosh is known internationally for his work in earthquake engineering. He has influenced seismic design provisions in the United States for many years by serving on or chairing numerous committees and advisory panels. He specializes in the analysis and design, including wind and earthquake resistant design, of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Dr. Ghosh is active on many national technical committees and is a fellow of ASCE, SEI, ACI, and PCI. He is a member of ACI Committee 318, Standard Building Code, and the ASCE 7 Standard Committee (Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures). He is a former member of the Boards of Direction of the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). In addition to authoring many publications in the area of structural design, he has investigated and reported on structural performance in recent earthquakes.

Discounted fee (for registration received by March 13):
$250 for the first connection; $185 for the second;
$125 for the third; and $60 for each subsequent connection.

Regular fee (for registration received after March 13):
$265 for the first connection; $195 for the second; $130 for the third;
and $65 for each subsequent connection.

Please note a single registration allows you to have one connection.
However, a number of people can view and listen to the seminar using one connection
by using an LCD projector (or a large computer monitor) and good computer speakers or a speaker phone.

All attendees, irrespective of the number of registered connections, can earn 0.25
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 2.5 professional development hours (PDHs). CEU/PDH certificates are provided free of charge.

FAQ

• A connection is defined as a single web connection plus a single telephone connection
  (if necessary). If you want to sign up for more than one connection for this seminar, you will have the opportunity to do so after placing the registration in your cart.
• A $15 fee will apply if the seminar registrant wishes to revise the web seminar registration (e.g. switch from one web seminar to another).
• Refunds are limited to 80 percent of fee and must be applied for in writing WITHIN THIRTY DAYS after the scheduled seminar.

We are a registered provider for continuing education in the

State of Florida (Provider # 4732), the
State of New York
(Provider # 99), the State of New Jersey (Provider # 24GP00014200), the State of Maryland, and for the
Structural Engineers Certification Board (SECB) of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA).