Course Details
Engineering and Transport Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
BOA001 course is part of 3 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
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.