Course Details

Concrete Structures 3

Academic Year 2025/26

BLB006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / S Summer 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

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/289808

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Comprehensive and simplified interactive system. Modelling of subsoil and foundation structures. Software Soilin.
  • 3. Shallow foundations. Distribution of contact stress in footing bottom. Detail design of footings from plain and reinforced concrete. Detail design of uniformly pressed continuous footing.
  • 4. Shallow foundations. Detail design of grid and mat foundations, slabs.
  • 5. Shallow foundations. Footings of precast structures (pocket foundation) – detail design. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations.
  • 6. Deep foundations. Limit states of subsoil and pile. Pile foundations, group of piles, footings above piles. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls.
  • 7. Foundations dynamically loaded. Response of machines on dynamic load action.
  • 8. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Foundation structures at reconstructions.
  • 9. Design of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Structural arrangement, pressure of fillers, principles of solution. Dimensioning and reinforcing of individual member of storage tanks.
  • 10. Design of rectangular and rotary symmetric reservoirs. Water reservoirs.
  • 11. Design of channels and ducts. Principles of structures and foundations design in the undermining areas.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Footing – Geotechnical category I – task, load.
  • 2. Footing – Geotechnical category II – ultimate limit states of foundation base.
  • 3. Footing – Geotechnical category II – serviceability limit states (settlement).
  • 4. Footing – ultimate limit states of bending moment and punching.
  • 5. Continuous Footing – task, simplified methods.
  • 6. Continuous Footing on elastic foundation.
  • 7. Raft foundations – task, load, simplified methods.
  • 8. Raft foundations – Interactive model of system subsoil – foundation.
  • 9. Pile foundations – task, design of cap for group of piles
  • 10. Pile foundations – design of pile.
  • 11. Project submission. Credit.