C&EE 143

Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Equivalent loads and allowable flexural stresses in determinate and indeterminate systems. Flexural and shear strength design, including secondary effects in indeterminate systems. Design of indeterminate post-tensioned beam using both hand calculations and commercially available computer program. Discussion of external post-tensioning, one- and two-way slab systems.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 135A, 142.

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C&EE 143

C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications3 more beneath
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- C&EE 135A

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