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.