Course Details

Selected Chapters of Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

CO053 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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. Steel towers – categorization. 2. Load of steel towers. 3. Design of steel towers 4. Steel towers - static and dynamic analysis. 5. Fatigue strength. 6. Software for design and analysis of steel structures, design automation. 7. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 1. Part: Characteristics and arrangement of selected structural types. 8. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 2. Part: Analysis of selected structural types, principles of designing and realization - special hall structures, frame houses, towers and bridges. 9. New types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details. Wood-concrete beams – principles of designing and structural solution. 10. Spatial timber and combined member structures: Timber member domes and vaults – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution. 11. Timber shells, vaults and lamellar structures – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution. 12. Exploration, reconstruction and strengthening of timber structures – examples of the reconstruction of selected structures. 13. Examples of realized structures and practical design aspects.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Steel towers – load. 2. - 4. Static and dynamic analysis. 4. Fatigue strength. 5. - 6. Design automation. 7. - 9. Analysis of selected timber structural types. 10. - 12. Timber shells, vaults and lamellar structures. 13. Examples of the reconstruction of selected structures.