Course Details
Timber Structures (K)
Academic Year 2024/25
BOA007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 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 and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
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, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation 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 modelling.
3. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or axial compression.
4. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections.
5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of timber 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.