Course Details

Concrete Structures 2 (EVB)

Academic Year 2025/26

BLA020 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ivana Laníková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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/290007

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Structural systems of multi-storey monolithic frame structures – arrangement of the systems, loading, design of dimensions, space stiffness.
  • 2. Multi-storey monolithic frame structures – static analysis, arrangement of reinforcement, detailings.
  • 3. Foundation structures as a part of the reliability system “subsoil – foundation – overground structure”. Results of geological survey. Foundations reliability. Limit states of subsoil and foundation structures load-bearing capacity.
  • 4. Foundation structures – footings and continuous footings.
  • 5. Foundation structures – grids and slabs, deep foundations.
  • 6. Precast load-bearing structures halls and buildings – design and reinforcing, stability and stiffness.
  • 7. Precast structures – influence of manufacturing, transport and assembly, design of joints, anchorages and lifitng lugs, action in assembly course.
  • 8. Principles of design of selected engineering structures – storage tanks, silos, reservoirs, retaining walls.
  • 9. Composite structures.
  • 10. High-rise buildings.
  • 11. – 12. Design of prestressed concrete members – principles, materials, prestressing and its changes, design principles.
  • 13. Work joints and expansion gaps in structures. Manufacturing and site control of structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Reinforced concrete structure - preliminary design of dimensions, schematic shape of the structure, loading, load cases for an inner frame.
  • 2. Analysis of inner forces in the frame.
  • 3. Analysis of inner forces in the frame - continuation.
  • 4. Load combinations within the girder and column.
  • 5. Design of the girder - bending moment.
  • 6. Design of the girder - shear forces (stirrups and/or bends).
  • 7. Reinforcement curtailment. Reinforcement drawings of the girder. Correction.
  • 8. Design of an inner column.
  • 9. Static analysis and design of a footing under the inner column.
  • 10. Reinforcement drawings of the footing and column. Correction.
  • 11. Deep beam.
  • 12. Final correction.
  • 13. Submit of the project. Credit.