Course Details
Metal Structures 2
Academic Year 2024/25
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.