Course Details
Metal Structures 2
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Current trends in development of metal structures (development of structural systems, materials and their combinations, technologies).
- 2. Development and perspective of using multi-storey building.
- 3. Structural system of multi-storey buildings with steel and steel-concrete bearing construction.
- 4. Spatial rigidity, brace and reinforcement systems.
- 5. Floor and platform bearing systems. Using of castellated beams and design.
- 6. Steel-concrete floor construction.
- 7. Multi-storey building columns, footing and column anchorage.
- 8. Large-span roofing. Spatial trusses.
- 9. Structural design of truss plates and grid systems.
- 10. Fabrication and assembly of metal structures.
- 11. Reinforcing, reconstructing and rebuilding problems of steel framed buildings.
- 12. Design of metal structures based on experimental results. Tests realization and interpretation.
- 13. Catastrophic events and their reflecting in design concepts of structural systems.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Individual assignments of the design of the metal multistory building.
- 2. Disposition arrangement and loading.
- 3. Roofing construction.
- 4. Floor structural system.
- 5. Columns of multistory building.
- 6. Footing and anchorage systems of columns.
- 7. Space rigidity of the building system, bracings.
- 8.–13. Elaboration of detailing and drawing documentation.