Course Details

Metal and Timber Structures 1

Academic Year 2026/27

BOA101 course is part of 5 study plans

BPC-SIS / S Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-SIS / K Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-SIS / E Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-SIS / M Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-SIS / V Summer Semester 2nd year

  • Materials for steel and timber structures: material properties, heat treatment, steel products and fields of application.
  • Basic principles of the design of steel and timber structures. Reliability of steel and timber structures. Basic loading cases in accordance with design standards. Classification of cross-sections and its significance.
  • Steel connections: characteristics and classification of steel connections.
  • Welded, bolted and pinned steel connections. Weld types, categories of bolted joints, slip-resistant joints.
  • Saint-Venant torsion and warping torsion of open and closed cross-sections.
  • Buckling resistance of compressed members with solid cross-sections.
  • Lateral-torsional buckling of members subjected to bending. Combined loading.
  • Structural layout of steel and timber industrial buildings.
  • Roof structures: roof build-up, roof cladding, purlins, trusses and bracing systems.
  • Details of roof structures: joints, connections of hollow structural sections, truss supports and erection joints.
  • Transverse bracing systems of industrial buildings: classification, types and structural design.
  • Structural details of selected transverse bracing systems.
  • Overall stiffness of the structural system: significance, function and arrangement of bracing systems.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

  • Fundamentals of university-level mathematics and physics
  • Fundamentals of structural mechanics
  • Basic knowledge of elasticity and strength of materials
  • Basic understanding of building structures and transport infrastructure

Aims

Knowledge

  • Students will acquire the fundamental principles and methods for the design of load-bearing members of steel and timber structures. They will also become familiar with the procedures and design methodologies used for the design of real structural members and components in accordance with European design standards.

Skills

  • Students will be able to independently design and verify the basic types of steel connections. They will be able to design and verify members with solid steel cross-sections subjected to the basic loading cases and their combinations. They will also be able to independently design and verify members with solid steel cross-sections considering global stability phenomena such as flexural buckling and lateral-torsional buckling.

Competences

  • Students will be able to independently solve fundamental design tasks related to steel building structures, particularly the design of members with solid cross-sections and their typical structural details. Upon successful completion of the course, students will have the necessary background to continue their studies in advanced topics related to the design of more complex steel structures.

Basic Literature

Ferjenčík, P., Schun, J., Melcher, J. a kol.: Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií, ALFA Bratislava, 1986 (cs)
Marek, P.: Kovové konstrukce pozemních staveb, Praha : SNTL ; Bratislava : Alfa, 1985 (cs)
Pilgr, M.: Kovové konstrukce: navrhování prvků ocelových konstrukcí, Brno : Akademické nakladatelství CERM ; 2019 (cs)
Farzad Hejazi, Steel structures design based on Eurocode 3, Singapore: Springer 2018, ISBN 978-981-10-8835-3 (en)
Kermani, A.; Porteous, J: Structural Timber Design to Eurocode 5. Wiley and Sons 2013 ISBN 978-0-470-67500-7  (en)

Recommended Reading

ČSN EN 1993-1-1 Ed.2 (731401) Eurokód 3: Navrhování ocelových konstrukcí – Část 1-1: Obecná pravidla a pravidla pro pozemní stavby, Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví (cs)
ČSN EN 1993-1-8 Ed.2 (731401) Eurokód 3: Navrhování ocelových konstrukcí - Část 1-8: Navrhování styčníků, Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví (cs)
ČSN EN 1995-1-1 (731701): Eurokód 5: Navrhování dřevěných konstrukcí – Část 1-1: Obecná pravidla – Společná pravidla a pravidla pro pozemní stavby. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví. (cs)

Prerequisites

  • Fundamentals of university-level mathematics and physics
  • Fundamentals of structural mechanics
  • Basic knowledge of elasticity and strength of materials
  • Basic understanding of building structures and transport infrastructure

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Self-study

1 week, 30 hours/week, elective

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

1 week, 48 hours/week, elective