Course Details
Load-Bearing Structures 1
Academic Year 2024/25
AL001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
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. Type of load-bearing structures, their characteristics and applicability. Principles and rules of design.
2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses.
3. Properties of materials for concrete structures. Concrete structures sorting.
4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress.
5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment.
6.-7. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels. Structures of stairs. Plain concrete.
8.-9. Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Material and assortment of structural members.
10. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of the limit states.
11. Joints of steel structures – principles of design and structural solution.
12. Tension members. Bending of beams. Stability and buckling strength of compressed members of massive, jointed and compound sections.
13. Tilting of beams. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.- 2. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete slab within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
3.- 4. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
5.- 6. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the shearing force.
7.- 8. Structural requirement and reinforcement drawing of the designed members.
9.- 12. Basic strain types and dimensioning of the steel structure members – bending moment, simple compression, buckling compression. Basic joint types of the steel structure members.
13. Credit.