Computer Aided Instruction for the Design and Analysis of Reinforced Concrete.
Abstract
The purpose of CAIDCON is to assign individual design problems to students taking an introductory course in Reinforced Concrete Design, a course usually required of all senior Civil Engineering students. More importantly, however, CAIDCON functions as a tireless tutor in monitoring, advising, and grading each students's solutions to the assigned problems. Unlike commercially available computer-aided design packages, CAIDCON emphasizes 'instruction', thus, the students are required to find acceptable design solutions in the traditional by 'hand' working the solutions at home from start to finish without the aid of black box solution routines. What CAIDCON offers the students are the following benefits: (1) immediate interactive checking of their design solutions at any time of the day or night; (2) if errors are found CAIDCON informs the student exactly what is wrong and offers helpful guidance for reworking the problem; and (3) CAIDCON offers an option to do practice problems which are not formally graded. (Theses)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA166421
Entities
People
- John W. Lynch
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology