Course Details
Concrete Structures (M)
Academic Year 2025/26
BLA018 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1.–2. Structural systems of multi-storey monolithic frame structures – arrangement systems, loading, space stiffness, ceiling structures, dimensioning, static solution, redistribution and restriction of forces, reinforcement arrangement, constructive principles.
- 3. RC monolithic hall structures.
- 4.–5. RC two-way slabs edge supported and locally supported.
- 6. Foundation structures – footings, continuous footings, grids, slabs.
- 7. Prestressed concrete – principle, materials, method of prestressing, principles of design.
- 8. Prestressing and its changes, ultimate and serviceability limit states.
- 9. Precast load-bearing structures halls and buildings – design and reinforcing, stability and stiffness.
- 10. Specialities in design of precast structures – influence of manufacturing, transport and assembly, design of joints, anchorages and mounting lugs, action in assembly course.
- 11.–12. Principles of design of selected engineering structures – storage tanks, silos, reservoirs, retaining walls.
- 13. Principles of masonry structures design. Expansion joints and units.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Cast-in-place RC framed structure - preliminary design of dimensions, scheme of shape of the 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. Design of primary beam for bending.
- 5. Design of primary beam for shear (stirrups, eventually also bends).
- 6. Curtailment of reinforcement of primary beam. Corrections.
- 7. Dimensioning of one internal column.
- 8. Structural solution and dimensioning of single footing below internal column.
- 9. Drawings of reinforcement of the primary beam, single footing and column. Corrections.
- 10. Two-way slab – preliminary design, load, internal forces, design of reinforcement.
- 11. Rebar or netting reinforcing.
- 12. Final checking.
- 13. Project submission. Credit.