Course Details

Metal Bridges 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BOA010 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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/289828

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic concepts, bridge terminology, main parts of the bridge, standards for the design and realization of steel bridges. Reliability and limit states of steel bridge structures.
  • 2. Load of bridge structures – traffic load of road and railway bridges, climatic loading. Fatigue of steel bridge structures.
  • 3. Superstructure and deck of railway bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing.
  • 4. Superstructure and deck of road bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing.
  • 5. Open decks – static behaviour principles, design rules of deck members.
  • 6. Plate steel decks (orthotropic decks) – static design principles, shear lag of wide chord.
  • 7. Beam bridges with web-plate main girders – static design principles, buckling of slender webs.
  • 8. Composite steel-concrete beam bridges – basic principles of the behaviour, design rules.
  • 9. Beam grids – basic rules of the structural design, static design principles.
  • 10. Beam bridges with truss main girders – structural design rules, static design principles.
  • 11. Bracings of bridge structures – types, function, loading, static design. Bridge accessories and attachment.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Structural composition of railway bridge with classic bridge deck or rail-bed bridge deck (according to the individual task).
  • 2. Load of railway bridge.
  • 3.–4. Detail static solution of deck members – stringers of classic bridge deck or longitudinal stiffnesses of rail-bed bridge deck: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections.
  • 5.–6. Detail static solution of deck members – transverse girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections.
  • 7. Preliminary static design of main girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-section.
  • 8.–9. Static design of bracings.
  • 10.–11. Structural detailing of members and details of bridge deck and main girders: drawing documentation.