Course Details

Selected Chapters of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BLA021 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Zich, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/290008

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Development of masonry structures and their design. Materials for masonry structures. Structural arrangement. Strength and deformation properties of masonry. Buckling influence.
  • 2. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements axially or unaxially compressed. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements stressed by flexure, shear, tension or concentrated pressure. Serviceabiity and detailing.
  • 3. General principles for the design of masonry structures. Design of masonry arches.
  • 4. Service life of the structure. failures - their causes, monitoring and possibilities of reducing their occurrence. Methods of diagnostics survey of concrete and masonry structures.
  • 5. Static conditions for the execution of reconstructions. Strengthening for concrete structures and masonry structures.
  • 6. Strengthening and reconstruction of structures using concrete, steel and wood. Strengthening of foundations.
  • 7. Static solution of superstructures. Temporary protection of structures during strengthening. Deformation of strengthening structures and their time monitoring. Using of bonded carbon strips
  • 8. Behavior of concrete and concrete structures in a fire. Impact of fire on the load-bearing capacity of structures. Assessment of fire resistance, temperature of concrete and reinforcement in case of fire.
  • 9. Principles of the proposal. Design methods for concrete structures exposed to fire - design according to tables. Simplified methods and advanced methods.
  • 10. Properties of masonry exposed to high temperatures. Determination of mechanical and physical characteristics of masonry. Principles of the proposal. Design methods for masonry structures exposed to fire effects.
  • 11. Panel systems, design solution. Parts and their connections. Reconstruction, rehabilitation, superstructures, interventions in the supporting elements of panel systems.
  • 12. Modern composite structures.
  • 13. Basics of environmental design of concrete and masonry structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 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. Masonry arch.
  • 5. Correction.
  • 6.–7. Strengthening of concrete members subjected to bending moment: Strengthening using additional reinforcement and concrete envelope, Strengthening with carbon fibre reinforced polymer strip.
  • 8.–9. Strengthening of timber floor structure: Reinforced concrete (RC) slab.
  • 10. Correction.
  • 11.-12. Design of concrete structures exposed to fire.
  • 13. Project and tasks submission. Credit.