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.