Design of Steel & Concrete members with discontinuity regions

The course is aiming to introduce the participant, to novel methodologies for the design of potentially critical regions of structures called discontinuity regions. To deal with these regions, modern codes - for both concrete and steel - have dedicated sections, with design rules that are limited to specific cases. However, modern architectural demands and construction methodologies can lead to design variations that are outside the scope of the code provisions.
This course gives an introduction to CSFM (Compatible Stress Field Method) and CBFEM (Component-Based Finite Element Method) - two methods of design that help the designer to overcome these limitations.