TY - GEN
T1 - Build-up virtual laboratory for reinforced concrete structures to enhance understanding design requirements
AU - Hwang, Young Kwang
AU - Bolander, John E.
AU - Deressa, Adeba Abera
AU - Lim, Yun Mook
PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - In this paper, we are trying to provide a simulation tool to find the different failure behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) structures with various design conditions. For example, design code asked designers/students to make distribution of re-bars for several numbers rather than one re-bar in the designed beam. Students can estimate the total amount of reinforcement cross sectional area by simple calculation, but students have to distribute the total amount area of re-bars to several numbers of re-bars with small diameter. In this requirement of the code, the students who learn RC structure design at the beginning stage are not easy to understand from theoretical point of view. However, they can easily learn, if they have hands on experience like real experiments or numerical simulations. Here, the real experiments for RC structures are required a lot of time and cost. Therefore, if a realistic simulation tool, so-called 'Virtual RC Structure Lab', is provided for engineering educational purpose, students could have a chance to learn from virtual hands on experience for RC structure design.
AB - In this paper, we are trying to provide a simulation tool to find the different failure behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) structures with various design conditions. For example, design code asked designers/students to make distribution of re-bars for several numbers rather than one re-bar in the designed beam. Students can estimate the total amount of reinforcement cross sectional area by simple calculation, but students have to distribute the total amount area of re-bars to several numbers of re-bars with small diameter. In this requirement of the code, the students who learn RC structure design at the beginning stage are not easy to understand from theoretical point of view. However, they can easily learn, if they have hands on experience like real experiments or numerical simulations. Here, the real experiments for RC structures are required a lot of time and cost. Therefore, if a realistic simulation tool, so-called 'Virtual RC Structure Lab', is provided for engineering educational purpose, students could have a chance to learn from virtual hands on experience for RC structure design.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICL.2015.7318048
DO - 10.1109/ICL.2015.7318048
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964765499
T3 - Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2015
SP - 330
EP - 333
BT - Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2015
Y2 - 20 September 2015 through 24 September 2015
ER -