This new edition follows the same philosophical approach that has gained wide acceptance of users since the first edition was published in 1965. Herein, as previously, strength and behavior of concrete elements are treated with the primary objective of explaining and justifying the ACI Code rules and formulas. Then, numerous examples are presented illustrating the general approach to design and analysis. Considering the limited scope of most examples, attempts to reach practical results are made insofar as possible.

Considerable emphasis is placed on presenting for the student, as well as the practicing engineer, the basic concepts deemed essential to understand and apply properly the ACI Code rules and formulas. The treatment is incorporated into the chapters in such a way that the reader may either study in detail the concepts in logical sequence, or merely accept a qualitative explanation and proceed directly to the design process using the ACI Code.

This text is suitable for the undergraduate level course. However, sufficient information is included for an additional course at the senior or graduate level.