Course Details

Concrete Structures 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BLA002 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ladislav Klusáček, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

4 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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289619

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Multi-storey frame structures – system arrangement, loading, design, space stiffness – bracing.
  • 2. Multi-storey frame structures – structural analysis, reduction and redistribution of internal forces.
  • 3. Multi-storey frame structures – reinforcement detailing, constructive principles.
  • 4.–5. Serviceability of reinforced concrete structures – stress limitation, cracks control, deflection control.
  • 6.–7. Principles of design of cast in place foundation structures – reinforced and plain concrete footing, continuous footings and grids.
  • 8. Single-storey frame structures – pointed and arched girder, corbels.
  • 9. Two-way edge supported slabs – structural arrangement, structural analysis, reinforcement.
  • 10. Continuous two-way slabs – principle of solution, reinforcement detailing. Slabs partially edge supported.
  • 11. Serviceability of two-way slabs. Slabs of common shape.
  • 12. Circular and annular slabs. Waffle slabs.
  • 13. Simple supported and continuous deep girders. Work joints and expansion gaps in structures. Manufacturing and control of structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Cast-in-place RC framed structure – preliminary design of dimensions, scheme of shape of structure, load, loading states for internal frame.
  • 2. Calculation of internal forces of the frame.
  • 3. Calculation of internal forces of the frame – continuation, combination of loads.
  • 4. Dimensioning of cross beam for bend and shear (stirrups, eventually also bends).
  • 5. Curtailment of reinforcement of cross beam. Checking.
  • 6. Dimensioning of one internal column.
  • 7. Structural solution and dimensioning of single footing below internal column.
  • 8. Drawings of reinforcement of the cross beam, single footing and column. Checking.
  • 9. Serviceability limit states – deformation, cracks.
  • 10. Two-way slab – preliminary design, load, internal forces, dimensioning – design of reinforcement.
  • 11. Rebar or netting reinforcing.
  • 12. Final checking.
  • 13. Project submission. Credit.