Course Details
Concrete Bridges 2 (DST)
Academic Year 2025/26
NLB034 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Type of bridges and technology of construction. Effect of prestressing. Modelling and analysis of bridges.
- 2. Analysis of slab and girder bridge.
- 3. Analysis of box girder bridges. Method of substitute girder grillage.
- 4. Typical structures: flyovers, urban bridges, highway viaducts, bridges across rivers and deep valleys.
- 5. Special problems of design and construction of bridges built on the stationary and launch scaffolding, cantilever bridges.
- 6. Special problems of design and construction of incrementally launched bridges, precast girder bridges.
- 7. Special problems of design and construction of precast segmental bridges.
- 8. Analysis and special problems of design and construction of arch bridges.
- 9. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges. Pedestrian bridges.
- 10. Bridges designed for effects of the mining subsidence. Bridges designed in seismic areas.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Continuous girder bridge: transport solution, design of a structure.
- 2. Schematic drawings (situation, longitudinal and cross section), structural model.
- 3. Load, material, interacting width, geometric characteristics.
- 4. Structural solution in longitudinal direction – load effects.
- 5. Design of prestressing reinforcement in critical cross-sections.
- 6. Design of cables trajectories, effects of prestressing, scheme of prestressing reinforcement.
- 7. Correction.
- 8. Evaluation for serviceability limit state – stress and cracks limitation.
- 9. Completion. Final correction.
- 10. Design submission. Credit.