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.