Course Details

Engineering and Transport Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BOA001 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289622

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic types of building and engineering structures.
  • 2. Materials for civil structures.
  • 3. Basic types of concrete, masonry, steel and timber structures.
  • 4. Loading of building structure, load classification, kinds of loading actions, load cases and their combinations.
  • 5. Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
  • 6. Basis of structural design of buildings.
  • 7. Concrete, steel and timber bridges and footbridges.
  • 8. Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Transportation terminology and basic concepts. Alignment and profile of the line.
  • 9. Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR. Structural and geometrical arrangement of road structures.
  • 10. Urban road.
  • 11. Technologies for road construction. Road types.
  • 12. Permanent way and subgrade.
  • 13. Railway stations. Airports.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
  • 2.–3. Basic types of building and engineering structures: basic types of concrete, masonry, steel and timber structures, concrete, steel and timber bridges and footbridges, basis of structural design of buildings.
  • 4.–5. Materials for civil structures: basic building materials, their physical-mechanical properties, advantages and disadvantages.
  • 6. Loading of building structures, load classification, load types and values, load cases and their combinations.
  • 7. Basic terminology. Design both of road communications and railway lines. Alignment – design of road axis, circular curve.
  • 8. Horizontal alignment – transition curve (clothoid), transitioned simple curve.
  • 9. Vertical alignment – design of levelling.
  • 10. Drawings – layout drawing, profile.
  • 11. Road cathegories, road cross section.
  • 12. Cross section of railway track, drainage, earthwork structures.
  • 13. Final control of tasks elaborated.