Course Details

Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BO007 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. Metal structures of industrial buildings (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins). 2. Industrial steel buildings (roof girders, construction of crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity). 3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity). 4. Metal bridges (parts of a bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembling of bridges). 5. Metal structures in hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of shutters, lock chamber gates). 6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of technical equipment). 7. Properties of the wood and wood-based materials (mechanical properties of timber material, basic design parameters, requirements of structure conditions). 8. Ultimate states of the timber structures, principles of their design. 9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures. 10. Connections in timber structures. 11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches. 12. Truss timber structures. 13. Spatial structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Design of members in tension. 2. Design of solid members under compression. 3. Design of built-up members. 4. Design of bending beams. 5. Stability of bending beams. 6. Design of beams made from glued laminated timber.