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.