Course Details

Load-Bearing Structures 2

Academic Year 2024/25

AF001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Design of concrete elements due to service limit state. 2. Reinforced concrete framed structures. 3. Space floor slab structures - slabs bearing in two directions, grid structure. 4. Foundation structures – pads, continuous footings, rafts, slabs. 5. Properties of a timber and materials on the basis of a timber from the aspect of utilization in building structures. Czech and foreign standards for the design of structures. Limit states of timber structures. 6. Basic types of stresses of members of timber structures and methodology of their checking. Joints of timber structures. 7. Plated and truss structures. Space timber structures – lattice structures, space bar systems, ribbed dome, vaulted and shell structures. 8. Soil difference of other building materials. Particular nature of soils. Soil properties. Strength of soils. Compressibility of soils. Classification of soils for engineering purposes. Consolidation of soils. 9. Stresses at soils. Geostatical stress. Stress from external loading. Contact pressure. 10. Limit states methodology. Bearing capacity and settlement of soils. Geotechnical categories. Slope stability. 11. The design and check of shallow foundations due to limit states. Soil improvement. 12. Earth pressures. Structures against earth pressures. Retaining and pile walls, diaphragm walls. Gabions. Foundation pit. 13. Deep foundations. Drilled and CFA piles. Technology. Limit load curve. Special foundation methods. Jet grouting. Micropiles.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.-2. Introduction. Design of two way reinforced slab. 3.-4. Design principles, scheme of drawing reinforcement 5.-6. Properties of a timber and materials on the basis of a timber from the aspect of utilization in structures. 7.-8. Basic types of stresses of members of timber structures and methodology of their checking. 9.-10. Soil properties from the point of view of geotechnical structures design. Stresses at soils. 11.-12. Limit states methodology. The design of shallow foundations due to limit states. 13. Deep foundations. Credit.