Course Details

Load-Bearing Structures 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BLA022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. František Girgle, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 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/289696

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Type of load-bearing structures, their characteristics and applicability. Principles and rules of design.
  • 2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses.
  • 3. Properties of materials for concrete structures. Concrete structures sorting.
  • 4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress.
  • 5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment.
  • 6.-7. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels. Structures of stairs. Plain concrete.
  • 8.-9. Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Material and assortment of structural members.
  • 10. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of the limit states.
  • 11. Joints of steel structures – principles of design and structural solution.
  • 12. Tension members. Bending of beams. Stability and buckling strength of compressed members of massive, jointed and compound sections.
  • 13. Tilting of beams. The load-bearing capacity of slender walls.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 2. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete slab within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
  • 4. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
  • 6. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the shearing force.
  • 8. Structural requirement and reinforcement drawing of the designed members.
  • 12. Basic strain types and dimensioning of the steel structure members – bending moment, simple compression, buckling compression. Basic joint types of the steel structure members.
  • 13. Credit.