Course Details

Masonry Structures (S)

Academic Year 2024/25

BL006 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 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. Development of masonry structures and their design. Materials for masonry structures. Structural arrangement. 2. Strength and deformation properties of masonry. Buckling influence. 3. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements axially or unaxially compressed. 4. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements stressed by flexure, shear, tension or concentrated pressure. 5. Limit state of cracks opening. Limit state of deformation. 6. General principles for the design of masonry structures. Statical analysis of hall masonry structures. 7. Statical analysis of multi-storey masonry buildings with flexible and rigid horizontal structures. 8. Statical analysis of masonry arches. 9. Horizontal structures of hollow clay blocks. Solution of composite elements formed of beams and shaped blocks. 10. Design of vertical ceramic elements. 11. Reinforced, grip and prestressed masonry. Folded walls.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Material characteristics. Axially loaded brickwork column. 2. Perimeter wall of a building with timber floors. 3. Interaction diagram of a brickwork column of T- shape. 4. Perimeter wall of a building with rigid floors (part 1). 5. Perimeter wall of a building with rigid floors (part 2). 6. Reinforced basement wall subjected to earth pressure. 7. Column subjected to concentrated loads. 8. Reinforced masonry lintel. 9. Brickwork vault. 10. Masonry arch lintel. 11. Handing in the project. Credit.