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

Ing. Jiří Strnad, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289806

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.