Course Details

Timber Structures (K)

Academic Year 2024/25

BO003 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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. History of timber structures review, development prospects. 2. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes. 3. Spatial configuration of timber structures, bent types, spatial systems. 4. Rules of computer modeling of timber structures. 5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying. 6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements. 7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details. 8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches. Design and structural details of glue laminated structures. 9. Truss girders, frames, and arches. Design of truss girder structures. 10. Structural safety against global loss of stability in timber structures, bracings. 11. Spatial structures – domes, vauts, shells, folds and structural construction. 12. Timber bridges and footbridges. Specialized timber structures. 13. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures. Fire resistance of timber structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes. 2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modeling. 3. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections. 4. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or compression. 5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of glued laminated structures. 6. Plane truss structures: Examples of design and detailing. 7. Space rigidity of the roofing systems, bracings. 8. – 13. Individual assignments of the design of the timber roofing structure. Disposition arrangement and loading, design and detailing.