Course Details
Load-Bearing Structures 2
Academic Year 2024/25
BFA013 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 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. Design of concrete elements due to service limit state.
2. Reinforced concrete framed structures.
3. Space floor slab structures - slabs bearing in two directions, grid structure.
4. Foundation structures – pads, continuous footings, rafts, slabs.
5. Properties of a timber and materials on the basis of a timber from the aspect of utilization in building
structures. Czech and foreign standards for the design of structures. Limit states of timber structures.
6. Basic types of stresses of members of timber structures and methodology of their checking. Joints of timber
structures.
7. Plated and truss structures. Space timber structures – lattice structures, space bar systems, ribbed dome, vaulted
and shell structures.
8. Soil properties from the point of view of design of geotechnical structures (soil strength and compressibility).
9. Geostatic stress. Stress from external loading. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations.
10. Deep foundations - technology, design (drilled piles).
11. Earth pressures - resting, active, passive.
12. Retaining structures - types and basics of design.
13. Micropiles. Jet grouting.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.-2. Introduction. Design of two way reinforced slab.
3.-4. Design principles, scheme of drawing reinforcement
5.-6. Properties of a timber and materials on the basis of a timber from the aspect of utilization in structures.
7.-8. Basic types of stresses of members of timber structures and methodology of their checking.
9. Determination of shear strength and compressibility parameters of soil.
10. Design and assessment of shallow foundations.
11. Design and assessment of drilled piles.
12. Determination of earth pressures.
13. Design and assessment of retaining wall. Credit.