Course Details

Metal Bridges 2 (DST)

Academic Year 2024/25

CO003 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. Steel-concrete composite bridges - loading actions, the beams in the elastic behaviour (basis of design). 2. Steel-concrete composite bridges - the beams in the plastic bahaviour, shear connections (basis of design). 3. Box girder bridges - specific properties of box girder bridges, the principles of static design, torsion of box girder bridges. 4. Skewed bridges and curved bridges - basis of design. 5. Arch bridges - types of arch bridges, structural composition, basic principles of static and structural design. 6. Arched bridges - specialties of the static design, frame bridges - basic principles. 7. Suspension bridges - basic principles of static and structural design. 8. Cable-stayed bridges - basic principles of static and structural design. 9. Steel and steel-concrete composite bridge supports - types, structural and static design. 10. Manufacture and erection of metal bridges. Examples of realized metal bridges.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Individual task of a project, basic information and requirements for an elaboration. 2. Structural composition of steel bridge with truss main girders (in dependence on the individual task). 3.-5. Static design of the bridge deck (in dependence on the individual task). 6.-9. Static design of main girders (in dependence on the individual task). 10.-11. Static design of bridge bracings (in dependence on the individual task). 12.-13. Structural detailing of selected bridge members or parts, elaboration of drawing documentation, project completion.