Course Details

Automation of the Design of Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

NOB023 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Martin Horáček, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295808

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Acquaint with computing systems for static and dynamic analysis of structures. Possibilities of application, examples of computing models of realized structures.
  • 2. Elementary input data.
  • 3. Structure geometry – planar and spatial models.
  • 4. Model – type of the supports, members, nodes. Loading actions and their combinations.
  • 5. Non-linearities.
  • 6. Stability analysis.
  • 7.–8. Global analysis of structures.
  • 9.–10. Computation. Evaluation of results. Dimensioning of members.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Acquaint with selected computing systems for static and dynamic analysis of structures.
  • 2. Input data.
  • 3. Structure geometry.
  • 4. Model – type of the supports, members, nodes.
  • 5. Loads.
  • 6. Stability analysis.
  • 7.–8. Global analysis of structures.
  • 9.–10. Computation. Evaluation of results. Dimensioning of members.