Course Details
Metal Bridges 2 (KON)
Academic Year 2024/25
CO059 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. Composite steel-concrete bridges - loads, beams in the plastic behaviour (basis of static design), influence of the method of erection, short-term and long-term effects).
2. Composite steel-concrete bridges - beams in the plastic behaviour (principles of static design).
3. Composite steel-concrete bridges - shear connections (types, structural detailing, basis of design).
4. Box girder bridges - specific properties of box girder bridges, basis od static design, torsion of box girder bridges.
5. Arch bridges - types of arch bridges, structural composition, basic principles of static and structural design.
6. Arch bridges - specialties of structural design, frame bridges.
7. Skewed bridges - basis of structural composition, basis of static design.
8. Curved bridges - basis of structural composition, bysis of ststic design.
9. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges - principles of structural composition, material and structural members.
10. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges - basis of static design.
11. Steel and composite steel-concrete bridge supports - types, structural static design.
12. Special bridges - temporary bridges, movable bridges, floated bridges (basic information).
13. Manufacture and erection of metal bridge structures, examples of realized metal bridges, practical aspects of the design.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 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 or arch main girders (in dependence on the individual task).
3.-5. Static and structural design of the bridge deck (in dependence on the individual task).
6.-9. Static and structural design of main girders (in dependence on the individual task).
10.-11. Static and structural design of bridge bracings (in dependence on the individual task).
12.-13. Elaboration of drawing documentation, project completion.