Course Details
Structural mechanics
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Interesting problems in structural mechanics; equalizing of bending moments between supports and on the support; optimal and variable beam section; design of the beam shape dependent on load.
- 2. Assumptions of linear mechanics; plane section remain plane and undeformed (plasticity, wall, torsion, shear lag), small deformations (loading by bending moment and by force), linear material.
- 3. Exception cases; mechanism; follower load.
- 4. Measurement of loading diagrams of nonlinear materials.
- 5. Measurement of deflection of cantilever beam, von Mises truss, catastrophic machines.
- 6. Energetical principles in statics, static stability.
- 7. Design of static nonlinear models and its solution.
- 8. Nonlinear symptoms in structural statics - collapse, loss of stability (beam buckling, bending of cantilever beam, frame, von Mises truss), bifurcations and catastrophes (beam buckling), loss of symmetry (beam buckling, torsion).
- 9. Energetical principles in dynamics (Lagrange and Hamilton function).
- 10. Design of dynamic nonlinear models, dynamical systems (definition, conservative/dissipative system).
- 11. Solution and monitoring of dynamical systems, numerical methods.
- 12. Phase space and trajectory of dynamical system.
- 13. Nonlinear symptoms in dynamics.