Course Details

Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BOA014 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / E Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basics of bearing structure design and realization problems. Material and selection of structural members of steel structures.
  • 2. Single-storey steel buildings (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins, roof girders, construction of the crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
  • 3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
  • 4. Spatial member systems.
  • 5. Metal bridges and footbridges (parts of a construction, bearings and shutters, assembling of bridges and footbridges).
  • 6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of technical equipment).
  • 7. Properties of the wood and wood-based materials (mechanical properties of timber material, basic design parameters, requirements of structure conditions).
  • 8. Ultimate states of the timber structures, principles of their design.
  • 9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
  • 10. Connections in timber structures.
  • 11. Plate and truss timber girders, frames and arches.
  • 12. Spatial timber constructions.
  • 13. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Properties of materials.
  • 2. Design of members in tension.
  • 3. Design of members under compression. Stability of members.
  • 4. Design of bending beams.
  • 5. Stability of bending beams.
  • 6. Connections of steel members.
  • 7. Connections of timber members.