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.