Course Details

Members of Metal Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BOA002 course is part of 4 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-MI Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BKC-SI Summer 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

summer

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/289623

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, situation and perspective of branch development.
  • 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements.
  • 3. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach.
  • 4. Geometric and static characteristics of ope nand closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members.
  • 5. Bolted joints and frictional joints.
  • 6. Fillet welds.Butt welds, plug welds, slott welds.
  • 7. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action.
  • 8. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section.
  • 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact and built-up section.
  • 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending.
  • 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression.
  • 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections. Critical and post-critical load-bearing capacity of a plain girders with thin walls. Resistance of steel structures to the action of repeated load. Factors which influence pulsating fatigue limit of steel structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Loading of building structures.
  • 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements.Method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach.
  • 3. Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members.
  • 4. Bolted joints and frictional joints.
  • 5. Fillet welds. Butt welds, plug welds, slot welds.
  • 6. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action.
  • 7. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section.
  • 8. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact section.
  • 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with built-up section.
  • 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending.
  • 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression.
  • 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections.