Course Details

Design of Concrete Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BLB013 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Radim Nečas, 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/289811

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – input data, essential actual codes, regulations.
  • 2. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – project documentation (types, technical report, static calculation, drawings).
  • 3. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
  • 4.–5. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering, load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
  • 6. Software for dimensioning and drawings of profile and reinforcement and for load-bearing structures design.
  • 7.–8. Modelling of the civil and structural engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures on computer.
  • 9.–11. Design of selected reinforced and prestressed structural member.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Determination of vertical alignment in terrain.
  • 2. Post-tensioned bridge beam: Design of bar model, cross-section, design of prestressing force on the bar model with the help of equivalent load.
  • 3. Live load on a bar, application of post-tensioned cable. Cable layout on a bar, progressive construction.
  • 4. Short-terms and long-terms losses of prestressing. Correction.
  • 5. Trapezoidal bridge slab: Design of RC slab model of variable height, loads distribution.
  • 6. Live load on a slab, check of calculation, determination of minimum reinforcement area.
  • 7. Calculation of non-linear deflection influenced by the cracks, reinforcement and creep.
  • 8. Design of prestressing force on a slab model with the help of equivalent load, cable layout in a slab, short-terms losses of prestressing.
  • 9. Pedestrian bridge formed by half-through girders combined with concrete slab: Design of a slab model with the bars on eccentricity (ribs), variable height on a bar, utilization of the areas of rib.
  • 10. Reinforcing: Utilization of programme RECOC. Correction.
  • 11. Project submission. Credit.