POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE DESIGN COURSE

This course is designed in two parts.

Instructors: Dirk Bondy S.E. and Bryan Allred, S.E.

When:

Part 1 - 10 Week Course: September 27, 2024 – December 13, 2024 (excluding the week of Thanksgiving)
Part 2 - 6 Week Course: January 17, 2025 – February 28, 2026

Where:

Online on Canvas Platform

Please note that one has to register for Part 1 and Part 2 separately. The details are given below. Please call (847) 991-2700 for more information.

Part 1. Post-Tensioned Concrete Design Basics and Design of Post-Tensioned Concrete Beams: Starts September 27, 2024

Option 1: Individual

10-week intensive course focused on design principles and concluding with a beam design project = $2,500.

This part will contain with lectures, live discussion sessions, assignments, and a complete design project.

Register for Part 1 Individual

Option 2: Individual Plus

Part 1: Get everything in Individual along with one copy each of PT Data, PT Designer, and Post Tensioned Concrete Principles and Practice hard copy book = $4,500.

(Please note, that the computer programs and the publication you will receive are worth $3200.00)

Register for Part 1 Individual Plus

Part 2. Design of Post-Tensioned Concrete One-Way and Two-Way Slabs: Starts January 17, 2025

6-week intensive course on one-way and two-way slabs = $1,500.

Note that completion of Part 1 is a prerequisite to join the Part 2 of the course, and either the purchase or previous ownership of PTData or PTDesigner is required.

Register for Part 2

If you have attended the Part 1 of the course in the year 2023, please email us at: kbhaumik@skghoshassociates.comfor registration.

Course Description

The most popular concrete floor system in the United States and abroad is made of post-tensioned concrete, yet most universities do not offer a course in post-tensioned concrete design. At best, some universities offer a course in Prestressed Concrete, which typically focuses on simply supported precast beams with straight, bonded strands. Therefore, many young engineers are tasked with using complicated post-tensioning software without the knowledge of what the software does in the design process.

ICC SKGA is proud to announce a complete online course in post-tensioned concrete design. This same course has been taught by Dirk Bondy, S.E. at UCLA and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for over a decade, and now it will be made available to everyone. The course will be taught by Dirk Bondy and Bryan Allred, both registered structural engineers in multiple states including California, with extensive practice and teaching experience.

Topics covered include:

Part 1

• Equivalent loads
• Service stress checks in statically determinate and indeterminate systems, moment redistribution
• Load balancing
• Flexural strength and demand including secondary effects, and beam shear design

Part 2

• Design of One- and Two-way slabs using combination of hand calculations and software

Course Highlights

• Use of the Canvas platform commonly used in many universities, where assignments will be given, collected, and graded and materials will be posted.
• Online video lectures that can be viewed on your schedule, with a live ZOOM discussion once a week.
• Access to both Dirk Bondy and Bryan Allred through Canvas or email for questions and support throughout the course.
• (Only for Individual Plus ) inclusion of your own licensed versions of PTData and PT Designer that can be used during and beyond the course.
• (Only for Individual Plus) inclusion of a hard copy of Bondy and Allred’s book “Post-Tensioned Concrete Principles and Practice”.
• Ideal preparatory course for the Concrete Section of the SE Exam.
• Graded homework assignments.
• Two optional take-home exams.
• Design of a continuous two-span beam with columns, with comparisons to the PT Data software output.
• Design of One- and Two-way slabs using combination of hand calculations and software in Part 2 of the course.
• PDHs for attending the recorded sessions and the live discussions.