Course Details

Load-Bearing Structures 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BFA013 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lumír Miča, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289645

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.