Course Details

Metal and Timber Structures 1

Academic Year 2026/27

BOA024-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPA-SIS Summer Semester 2nd year

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

Aims

Knowledge
  • Students will learn the basic principles and methods for designing load-bearing members of steel and timber structures. They will also study procedures and workflows for designing real structural members and components in accordance with standardized European documents.
Skills
  • The student is able to independently design and assess the basic types of joints of steel structures. The student is able to design and assess members of steel cross-sections in relation to the basic stress types or their combinations. The student is also able to independently design members of solid steel sections with the effects of global stability problems such as buckling and lateral-torsional buckling.
Competences
  • The student is able to independently solve basic tasks of designing steel structures of civil engineering structures from the point of view of designing members of solid cross-sections and their characteristic details. Upon completion of the course, the student is eligible for further education in advanced design problems 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)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

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