Course Details

Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures Exposed to Fire

Academic Year 2025/26

NLB033 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. František Girgle, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295880

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. The behaviour of concrete and concrete structures during the fire. Effects of fire on structural bearing capacity.
  • 2.–3. Evaluation of fire resistance, the temperature of concrete and reinforcement during the fire. Analysis of the effects of fire and fire load calculation.
  • 4.–5. Properties of concrete and reinforcement at increased temperatures. Determination of mechanical and physical characteristics of concrete and reinforcing steel.
  • 6.–7. Design principles. Design methods for concrete structures exposed to fire - design according to the tables.
  • 8.–9. Simplified calculation methods and advanced computational methods. Special features of the proposal of elements from high-strength concrete on the effects of fire.
  • 10.–11. Properties of masonry at increased temperatures. Determination of mechanical and physical characteristics of masonry.
  • 12.–13. Design principles. Design methods for masonry structures exposed to fire.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Determination of load on concrete elements and its effects during the fire.
  • 2. Determination of the temperature in the heated concrete element.
  • 3. Correction.
  • 4.–5. Calculation of bearing capacity of concrete elements at known temperature profiles of elements.
  • 6.–7. Slab and beam – verification of fire resistance according to the tables.
  • 8. Columns – verification of fire resistance according to the tables.
  • 9. Correction.
  • 10. Slabs, beams – verification of fire resistance by the “500 °C isotherm” method.
  • 11. Wall – verification of fire resistance by the zone method.
  • 12. Final correction.
  • 13. Submission of the project. Credit.