Principles of Reinforced Concrete Design
暫譯: 鋼筋混凝土設計原則

鼓勵創造性使用鋼筋混凝土（RC）的《鋼筋混凝土設計原則》清楚區分了基本原理與專業共識。它呈現了基本原理與實用方法的混合，並提供設計RC結構所需的基本概念，強調基於力學、經驗和實驗的原則，同時鼓勵從業者參考當地建築法規。該書涵蓋了建築和橋樑結構設計的應用，並且適用於全球，因為它不依賴於任何特定的法規。這一新版包括了有關板的更新材料，從實用建議到基於力學和幾何的詳細解決方案。還新增了範例、插圖和練習，以幫助教師和學生。還添加了國際單位制（SI）單位，以擴大本書的覆蓋範圍。

- 包含可以在一學期內教授的簡明內容。
- 強調行為的基本原則。
- 使學生理解法規所基於的原則，幫助他們在不斷變化的法規迷宮中導航。
- 培養對設計的內在理解。

Mete A. Sozen, S.E. (IL) (deceased), a graduate of Bogazici University (Istanbul) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the Kettelhut Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He taught courses on reinforced concrete and earthquake-resistant design. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was an honorary member of the Turkish Society for Engineers and Scientists, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the Architectural Institute of Japan, and the International Association for Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Sozen had been granted honorary degrees by Bogazici University (Turkey), Janus Pannonius University (Hungary), and the Tbilisi Technical University (Georgia). He was included in the Applied Technology Council and the Engineering News-Record lists of the top ten seismic engineers of the 20th century. Dr. Sozen had worked as a consultant with the Veterans Administration, the Department of State, Bechtel, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Consumers Power Co., Electric Power Research Institute, ERICO, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, SANDIA National Laboratories, U.S. Army Engineering R & D Center in Vicksburg, WJE Engineers, and Westinghouse Savannah River Site. He had also worked on design and evaluation of concrete dams with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and Southern California Edison.

Toshikatsu Ichinose completed his undergraduate education in architectural engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology and earned graduate degrees at the University of Tokyo. In 1982, he returned to Nagoya Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), where he taught structural mechanics and reinforced concrete. After retiring from N.I.T. Dr. Ichinose taught at Meijo University.

Dr. Ichinose chaired the committee in charge of RC building code of the Architectural Institute of Japan for nearly 20 years. He is proud to also be a coauthor of Understanding Structures (CRC Press, 2008).

Santiago Pujol is from Medellín, Colombia, where he was first exposed to the reinforced concrete industry by his father, an architect who designed and directed the construction of a number of residential and commercial buildings in the city. He completed his undergraduate education in civil engineering at the School of Mines at the National University of Colombia in 1996. At the time, the School of Mines had a five-year undergraduate program designed after European academic models. Damage caused by earthquakes in Colombia motivated him to earn an MS and PhD from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Pujol worked with a forensic firm in San Francisco, California, from 2002 to 2005. During that time, he traveled to Japan and started lasting collaborations with Japanese engineers whose wisdom and attention to proportions and aesthetics still influence his views. From 2005 to 2020, he taught and did research at Purdue University. He currently works at the University of Canterbury (U.C.), Christchurch, New Zealand. The move to U.C. was motivated in part by the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 which, in his view, demonstrated the urgent need for more robust buildings to cope with uncertainties associated with earthquake hazards.

**梅特·A·索岑**（Mete A. Sozen），S.E.（IL）（已故），畢業於博加茲大學（Bogazici University，伊斯坦堡）和伊利諾伊大學香檳分校（University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign），曾任普渡大學（Purdue University）土木工程系的凱特爾哈特教授（Kettelhut Professor），位於印第安納州西拉法葉。他教授鋼筋混凝土和抗震設計的課程。他是美國國家工程院（U.S. National Academy of Engineering）和瑞典皇家工程科學院（Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences）的成員。他是土耳其工程師與科學家協會（Turkish Society for Engineers and Scientists）、美國土木工程師學會（American Society of Civil Engineers）、美國混凝土學會（American Concrete Institute）、日本建築學會（Architectural Institute of Japan）以及國際抗震工程協會（International Association for Earthquake Engineering）的名譽會員。索岑博士曾獲得博加茲大學（土耳其）、雅努斯·潘諾紐斯大學（Janus Pannonius University，匈牙利）和第比利斯技術大學（Tbilisi Technical University，喬治亞）頒發的名譽學位。他被列入應用技術委員會（Applied Technology Council）和《工程新聞紀錄》（Engineering News-Record）20世紀十大抗震工程師名單中。索岑博士曾擔任美國退伍軍人事務部（Veterans Administration）、國務院（Department of State）、貝克特（Bechtel）、布魯克海文國家實驗室（Brookhaven National Laboratory）、消費者電力公司（Consumers Power Co.）、電力研究所（Electric Power Research Institute）、ERICO、勞倫斯·利弗莫爾國家實驗室（Lawrence Livermore Laboratories）、洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室（Los Alamos National Laboratory）、核能監管委員會（Nuclear Regulatory Commission）、桑迪亞國家實驗室（SANDIA National Laboratories）、美國陸軍工程研發中心（U.S. Army Engineering R & D Center in Vicksburg）、WJE工程師（WJE Engineers）和西屋薩凡納河工廠（Westinghouse Savannah River Site）的顧問。他還曾與美國灌溉局（U.S. Bureau of Reclamation）、太平洋煤氣電力公司（Pacific Gas and Electric Co.）和南加州愛迪生公司（Southern California Edison）合作進行混凝土大壩的設計和評估。

**市野俊勝**（Toshikatsu Ichinose）在名古屋工業大學（Nagoya Institute of Technology）完成建築工程的本科教育，並在東京大學（University of Tokyo）獲得研究生學位。1982年，他回到名古屋工業大學（N.I.T.），教授結構力學和鋼筋混凝土。從N.I.T.退休後，市野博士在名城大學（Meijo University）任教。

市野博士擔任日本建築學會（Architectural Institute of Japan）鋼筋混凝土建築法規委員會的主席近20年。他自豪地成為《理解結構》（Understanding Structures，CRC Press，2008）的共同作者之一。

**聖地亞哥·普霍爾**（Santiago Pujol）來自哥倫比亞的麥德林（Medellín），他首次接觸鋼筋混凝土行業是因為他的父親是一位建築師，設計並指導了該市多棟住宅和商業建築的建設。他於1996年在哥倫比亞國立大學（National University of Colombia）礦業學院完成土木工程的本科教育。當時，礦業學院有一個五年的本科課程，按照歐洲學術模式設計。哥倫比亞地震造成的損害促使他獲得普渡大學（Purdue University，印第安納州西拉法葉）的碩士和博士學位。普霍爾博士於2002年至2005年在加州舊金山的一家法醫公司工作。在此期間，他前往日本，並開始與日本工程師建立持久的合作關係，這些工程師的智慧以及對比例和美學的關注至今仍影響著他的觀點。從2005年到2020年，他在普渡大學教授和進行研究。目前，他在新西蘭基督城的坎特伯雷大學（University of Canterbury，U.C.）工作。搬到U.C.的部分原因是受到2010年和2011年坎特伯雷地震的影響，這些地震在他看來顯示了建造更堅固建築以應對與地震危害相關的不確定性之迫切需求。