Course Details

Selected Chapters of Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BOB006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jan Barnat, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/289833

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Composite steel-concrete structural systems – basic principles of behaviour, loading, material, design standards.
  • 2. Steel-concrete beams – ultimate limit state, serviceability limit state (basic design principles).
  • 3. Steel-concrete beams – shear connectors (types, basic design principles).
  • 4. Steel-concrete columns – basic design principles.
  • 5. Steel-concrete structural members – basic principles of the fire design.
  • 6. Timber beams – types, design principles, static design.
  • 7. Glue laminated timber structures – design principles, static design, basic structural compositions.
  • 8. Assembly connections of timber structures with metal timber fasteners – design principles, basic calculation.
  • 9. Design of timber structures – structural fire design. Behaviour of timber elements during the fire.
  • 10. Design of timber structures – rules for analysis of structural members, basic design calculation; behaviour of connections of timber elements during the fire, basic design calculation.
  • 11. Practical application of steel-concrete structural members and components; practical application of timber structural members and parts; examples of realized constructions.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Composite steel-concrete structural systems.
  • 2.–4. Steel-concrete beams – basic design principles.
  • 5. Steel-concrete structural members – basic principles of the fire design.
  • 6. Timber beams – static design.
  • 7. Glue laminated timber structures – static design.
  • 8. Assembly connections of timber structures with metal timber fasteners – design principles.
  • 9.-10. Design of timber structures – structural fire design.
  • 11. Practical application of timber structural members and parts.