Course Details
Concrete bridges 2 (DST)
Academic Year 2024/25
CL003 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
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Type of bridges and technology of construction. Effect of prestressing. Modelling and analysis of bridges.
2. Analysis of slab and girder bridge.
3. Analysis of box girder bridges. Method of substitute girder grillage.
4. Typical structures: flyovers, urban bridges, highway viaducts, bridges across rivers and deep valleys.
5. Special problems of design and construction of bridges built on the stationary and launch scaffolding, cantilever bridges.
6. Special problems of design and construction of incrementally launched bridges, precast girder bridges.
7. Special problems of design and construction of precast segmental bridges.
8. Analysis and special problems of design and construction of arch bridges.
9. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges. Pedestrian bridges.
10. Bridges designed for effects of the mining subsidence. Bridges designed in seismic areas.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Continuous girder bridge: transport solution, design of a structure.
2. Schematic drawings (situation, longitudinal and cross section), structural model.
3. Load, material, interacting width, geometric characteristics.
4. Structural solution in longitudinal direction – load effects.
5. Design of prestressing reinforcement in critical cross-sections.
6. Design of cables trajectories, effects of prestressing, scheme of prestressing reinforcement.
7. Correction.
8. Evaluation for serviceability limit state – stress and cracks limitation.
9. Completion. Final correction.
10. Design submission. Credit.