Final Page
CVEN 444


This is a review page for the material on the final exam. The information will help you to focus on what is important. If you have questions, email me! The take home-exam will be due by December 10 from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. It will consists of 4 problems.

The final exam consist of four problems. You will have a week to finish the exam. A series of example problems are available on-line to help you work the problems.




The problems are copies of old exams:

  1. Problem 1 is a two-slab design. I have two example problems on-line, which you can use to find the results. The first example is the design of slab thickness for the given design. The second example is the design procedure for a two-way slab. You will need to use the technique from the footing design to compute the steel reinforcements using Ru. You can find more material in Lecture 23, and Lecture 24.
  2. Problem 2 is a serviceability design for deflection calculations. There is an serviceability example, which you can use to help in computing the deflection. You will also find material in lecture 21 and lecture 22.
  3. Problem 3 is the design of the reinforcement for a spiral column. You need to use the tables in the back of your book. The depth is the the diameter of the spiral column. You will also find material in lecture 20, lecture 21 and lecture 22.
  4. Problem 4 is the design of square footing. You will find a footing example, which you looks at the design of a footing for a wall. A second footing example, which you looks at design of rectangular footing for column connection. It will show how to look at one-way shear, two-way shear (punch out), dowel design and bearing capacity and bar development length. You will find more material on the topic in lecture 24.




    If you have any question on the exam I will answer them on a question page. Good luck.


Last modified: 00:50 December 8, 2001

Dr. E.W. Sandt
Civil Engineering Department
Texas A&M University

esandt@stommel.tamu.edu