1. Introduction. Development of bridge engineering. Basic definitions. Type of bridges. Essential parts of bridges. Spatial arrangement. 2. Loads. Materials for bridges construction and their properties. Specifications for design of bridges and load-bearing structures. 3. Stone, masonry and plain concrete bridges. Culverts – types, loading, dimensioning. 4. Slab bridges – structural arrangement, static action. 5. Vertical, skew and irregular slabs. Accurate and approximate methods of slab calculation. Expansion action. 6. Slabs from prestressed concrete assembled from precast members – reinforcement, prestressing, calculation methods. 7. Principles of general types of cast in place girder bridges design. 8. Principles of design of general types of girder bridges from precast members. 9. Accessories of road and railway bridges. Waterproofing. Pavements and cornices. Railings and safety barriers. 10. Expansion joinst. Drainage. Steel, concrete, elastomer and combined bearings. 11. Substructure – abutments, wing walls and intermediate supports. Waterproofing and wearing surface. Support threshold. Construction work behind abutment.

1. Reinforced concrete bridge: Design and review of load-bearing structure of a slab bridge, design of bridge, space arrangement, embedding into terrain, superstructure, supporting and equipment. 2. Load (permanent and variable load – vertical moving load), calculation of internal forces using simplified method (method of interaction width), combination of internal forces. 3. Dimensioning for ultimate limit state – material, covering and reinforcement design, analysis of bend and shear, design of transverse reinforcement, anchorage of reinforcement. 4. Evaluation for serviceability limit state – stress and cracks limitation, displacement limitation. 5. Drawings of layout and arrangement of reinforcement. 6. Bridge substructure: Design and checking of support – load-bearing capacity, stability, cantilever wing. 7. Bridge saet (bearing chair), breast wall. 8. Structural members enabling expansion of load-bearing bridge structure. Calculation of expansions, design of members, adjustment of members for different temperatures. 9. Bridge from longitudinal prestressed segments. Design, load, transversal interaction of girders, internal forces, dimensioning and reinforcing principles. 10. Final correction. 11. Design submission. Credit.