Course Details

Concrete Bridges 2 (KON)

Academic Year 2025/26

NLB032 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Radim Nečas, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry 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/295872

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Type of bridges and technology of construction. Effect of prestressing.
  • 2. Modelling and analysis of bridges.
  • 3. Analysis of slab and girder bridge.
  • 4. Analysis of box girder bridges.
  • 5. Method of substitute girder grillage.
  • 6. Typical structures: flyovers, urban bridges, highway viaducts, bridges across rivers and deep valleys.
  • 7. Special problems of design and construction of bridges built on the stationary and launch scaffolding, cantilever bridges.
  • 8. Special problems of design and construction of incrementally launched bridges, precast girder bridges.
  • 9. Special problems of design and construction of precast segmental bridges.
  • 10. Analysis and special problems of design and construction of arch bridges.
  • 11. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges.
  • 12. Pedestrian bridges.
  • 13. Bridges designed for effects of the mining subsidence. Bridges designed in seismic areas.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Effect of prestressing on bridge structures. Continuous box girder bridge – design, scheme of longitudinal and transversal section, load, structural model, structural solution in longitudinal direction – dead load.
  • 2. Design of prestressing reinforcement, effects of prestressing.
  • 3. Structural solution in longitudinal direction – varying load, combination of internal forces.
  • 4. Serviceability limit state – stress and cracks limitation. Correction.
  • 5. Ultimate limit state – bending moment. Drawing of prestressing cables.
  • 6. Ultimate limit state – shear force and torsion.
  • 7. Design of shearing reinforcement.
  • 8. Design of reinforcement in transverse direction.
  • 9. Correction.
  • 10. Design and review of cross beam.
  • 11. Drawing of passive reinforcement, technical report, completion.
  • 12. Final correction.
  • 13. Design submission. Credit.