Course Details
Structural Mechanics 1
Academic Year 2025/26
BDA015 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
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
- Introduction to structural mechanics. Basic concepts, principles and axioms. Planar force systems.
- Basic types of statically determinate beams. Structural form and idealisation, loading, supports and reactions. Static and kinematic determinacy of structures. Calculation of support reactions.
- Planar lattice girders. Determination of normal forces – method of joint and the method of section.
- Types of internal forces. Beam equilibrium differential equations. Internal forces diagrams.
- Statically determinate plane beams – simply supported, cantilever.
- Statically determinate plane angled
- Statically determinate plane inclined beams.
- Frame structures with internal pins.
- Geometric properties of cross-sections. The parallel axis theorem. The radius of gyration and ellipse of second-order moments of the cross-section.
- Basic concepts and assumptions of the linear elasticity and strength theory. Stress, displacement, deformation. Simple stresses in civil engineering – direct tension and compression.
- Simple stresses in civil engineering – shear and bending. Transverse shear stress. Shear stress in thin-walled members. Shear centre.
- Torsional stress. Stability and elastic buckling of axially loaded compression members
- Combined bending and direct stress.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Concurrent system of forces in a plane. Composition and decomposition of force into orthogonal components. Resultant, equivalence, equilibrium.
- System of parallel forces in a plane. General system of forces in a plane. Resultant, equivalence, equilibrium.
- Calculation of reactions of simple straight, angled and truss beams loaded by forces, moments, and continuous loading
- Calculation of axial forces in members of planar lattice girders.
- Straight planar statically determined beams and cantilevers with simple load, reactions and diagrams of internal forces.
- Plane straight beams loaded with any uniform load, calculation of reactions in bonds, calculation and drawing of internal force diagrams.
- Plane rectangular angled beams loaded with any load, including uniformly continuous and linear, reactions and diagrams of internal forces. The first control test (calculation of the reactions of a simple planar beam).
- Plane inclined beams, reactions and diagrams of internal forces.
- Three-joint angled beam with and without rod, reactions and diagrams of internal forces.
- Gerber beam. Calculation of reactions and diagrams of internal forces.
- Centre of gravity, quadratic and deviation moments of plane compound shapes, application of Steiner's theorem.
- Geometric properties of compound rolled steel sections. The second control test (diagrams of internal forces of a simple planar beam).
- Design and assessment of bent elements – normal stresses. Credit