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.