Course Details

Timber Structures (S)

Academic Year 2025/26

BOA003 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Milan Šmak, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

4 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/289624

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
  • 2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
  • 3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
  • 4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
  • 5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
  • 6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
  • 7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
  • 8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
  • 9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
  • 10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
  • 11. Timber structures for residential, administrative, agricultural and other purposes.
  • 12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures.
  • 13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes.
  • 2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modelling.
  • 3. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or axial compression.
  • 4. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections.
  • 5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of timber structures.
  • 6. Plane truss structures: Examples of design and detailing.
  • 7. Space rigidity of the roofing systems, bracings.
  • 8.–13. Individual assignments of the design of the timber roofing structure. Disposition arrangement and loading, design and detailing.