Course Details

Metal and Timber Structures 1

Academic Year 2026/27

BOA101-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPA-SIS 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

English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jan Barnat, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

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

Simões da Silva, L., Simões, R., & Gervásio, H. (2010). Design of Steel Structures: Eurocode 3 – Design of Steel Structures. Part 1-1: General Rules and Rules for Buildings. Brussels: ECCS – European Convention for Constructional Steelwork. (en)
Trahair, N. S., Bradford, M. A., Nethercot, D., & Gardner, L. (2008). The Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures to EC3 (4th ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. (en)
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

EN 1993-1-1: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings. Brussels: European Committee for Standardization (CEN), 2014 (en)
EN 1993-1-8: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-8: Design of joints. Brussels: European Committee for Standardization (CEN), 2014. (en)
EN 1995-1-1: Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures – Part 1-1: General – Common rules and rules for buildings Brussels: European Committee for Standardization (CEN), 2008. (en)

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/299104

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Materials for steel and timber structures, product assortments and application areas.
  2. Basic principles of design of steel and timber structures. Reliability of steel structures. Basic stress types in relation to normative documents. Classification of cross-sections and its importance.
  3. Connections in steel structures - characteristics and classification.
  4. Welded, bolted and pinned connections of steel structures. Types of welds, types of bolted joints.
  5. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members.
  6. Buckling resistance of compression members.
  7. Lateral and torsional buckling of bended members, stress combinations.
  8. Structural disposition of steel and timber hall buildings.
  9. Steel roof structures, purlins, rafters, trusses.
  10. Details of steel roof structures, joints, connection of hollow sections, assembly joints, bearings.
  11. Transversal bearing systems of steel halls.
  12. Details of load bearing systems of steel halls.
  13. Structural stiffness of the load-bearing system, importance, function and arrangement of bracings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Material properties Classification of cross-sections and its importance and meanings.
  2. Basic stress types – tension, compression, shear, bending. Elastic and Plastic behaviour.
  3. Connections in steel structures – Bolted joints, characteristics, categories of bolted joints.
  4. Connections in steel structures – Principles of design of bolted joints – examples.
  5. Connections in steel structures – Welded joints, characteristics, production and types of welds.
  6. Connections in steel structures – Principles of design of welded joints – examples.
  7. Buckling resistance of steel compressed members.
  8. Lateral-torsional buckling of bended steel members.
  9. Combination of stresses, Combination of stability problems.
  10. Roof structure – Assignment of tutorial project, structural disposition, definition of loads.
  11. Roof structure –Roof sheeting, design of purlin.
  12. Roof structure – Design of truss members, solution of selected connections.
  13. Roof structure – Design of steel roof bracings, drawings..

Self-study

1 week, 30 hours/week, elective

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

1 week, 48 hours/week, elective