C&EE 143 · CEE 143Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 135A, 142.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 143
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
2 direct requisites. Showing 6 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.