C&EE 243B · CEE 243BResponse and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structural Systems
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Information on response and behavior of reinforced concrete buildings to earthquake ground motions. Topics include use of elastic and inelastic response spectra, role of strength, stiffness, and ductility in design, use of prescriptive versus performance-based design methodologies, and application of elastic and inelastic analysis techniques for new and existing construction.
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 243A, 246.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 243B
- C&EE 243ABehavior and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structural Elements
- C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
2 direct requisites. Showing 9 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.