Course Details

Members of Concrete Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BLA001 course is part of 4 study plans

BPA-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

BPC-MI Summer Semester 2nd year

BKC-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Concrete members. Components of concrete. Structural properties of concrete and influencing factors.
  • 2. Types of concrete and reinforcement, their interaction. Theory of concrete structures design – load, structural requirements, design assumptions, durability. Ultimate limit states – principle of design.
  • 3. Analysis of reinforced concrete bending members. Design of cross-sections for bending – general and simplified method.
  • 4. Design of cross-sections for bending – rectangular sections, general sections, sections subject to biaxial bending moment .
  • 5.–6. Design of cross-sections for shearing force.
  • 7. Curtailment of reinforcement in beam – detailing and arrangements. Reinforcement of bended structural members.
  • 8. Principles of design and reinforcement of stairs.
  • 9.–10. Design of sections subjected to axial load and bending.
  • 11. Design of sections for torsion moment. Design of members from plain and lightly reinforced concrete.
  • 12. Verification of serviceability limit state of flexural members. Time-dependent properties of concrete.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. The load and its determination, combination and effects. Idealisation of basic structural members. Design of monolithic reinforced concrete structure – project: Definition of task, preliminary design of dimensions, analysis of structural solution and static system, scheme of shape of structure.
  • 2. Basic materials of reinforced concrete, interaction of concrete and reinforcement, durability of concrete members.
  • 3. Bended members, design and review of the slabs: single supported floor slab – load, action of load and combinations, design for bending and shear, transverse reinforcement, anchorage of reinforcement, modification of reinforcement in the areas of partial fixation, scheme of reinforcement.
  • 4. Design and review of slabs: continuous floor slab – load, action of forces (redistribution of forces) and combinations, design for bending, scheme of reinforcement.
  • 5. Design and review of beam with the T cross-section - load, action and combination, design for bending (T-section, comparison with rectangular cross-section).
  • 6. Member of general cross-section subject to bending – general method, application on cantilever beam (example).
  • 7. Correction.
  • 8. Beam with the T cross-section – design for shear, shear between web and flanges of T cross-section, curtailment of reinforcement.
  • 9. Design and review of a lintel - load, action and comcination, design for bendding, shear, direct and indirect supporting of beam, scheme of reinforcement. Reinforcement of ring beams. Drawings of reinforcement of designed members.
  • 10. Vertical framed concrete structures: RC column subjected to bending and axial force – load, action of load, verification of load-bearing capacity via interactive diagram (example).
  • 11. Correction.
  • 12. Submit of the project. Credit.