Course Details
Masonry Structures (S)
Academic Year 2025/26
BLA004 course is part of 3 study plans
BPA-SI Summer Semester 4th year
BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 4th 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. Development of masonry structures and their design. Materials for masonry structures. Structural arrangement.
- 2. Strength and deformation properties of masonry. Buckling influence.
- 3. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements axially or unaxially compressed.
- 4. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements stressed by flexure, shear, tension or concentrated pressure.
- 5. Serviceabiity and detailing.
- 6. General principles for the design of masonry structures. Statical analysis of hall masonry structures.
- 7. Statical analysis of multi-storey masonry buildings with flexible and rigid horizontal structures.
- 8. Reinforced and prestressed masonry structures.
- 9. Horizontal structures of hollow clay blocks. Design of masonry arches.
- 10. Simlified design methods and fire resistance assesment.
- 11. Reconstructions and strengthening of masonry structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Material characteristics. Axially loaded brickwork column.
- 2. Perimeter wall of a building with timber floors.
- 3. Interaction diagram of a brickwork column of T- shape.
- 4. Perimeter wall of a building with rigid floors (part 1).
- 5. Perimeter wall of a building with rigid floors (part 2).
- 6. Reinforced basement wall subjected to earth pressure.
- 7. Column subjected to concentrated loads.
- 8. Reinforced masonry lintel.
- 9. Brickwork vault.
- 10. Masonry arch lintel.
- 11. Handing in the project. Credit.