Course Details
Metal Bridges 2 (KON)
Academic Year 2024/25
NOB028 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Composite steel-concrete bridges – loads, beams in the plastic behaviour (basis of static design), influence of the method of erection, short-term and long-term effects).
2. Composite steel-concrete bridges – beams in the plastic behaviour (principles of static design).
3. Composite steel-concrete bridges – shear connections (types, structural detailing, basis of design).
4. Box girder bridges – specific properties of box girder bridges, basis od static design, torsion of box girder bridges.
5. Arch bridges – types of arch bridges, structural composition, basic principles of static and structural design.
6. Arch bridges – specialties of structural design, frame bridges.
7. Skewed bridges – basis of structural composition, basis of static design.
8. Curved bridges – basis of structural composition, bysis of ststic design.
9. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges – principles of structural composition, material and structural members.
10. Suspension and cable-stayed bridges – basis of static design.
11. Steel and composite steel-concrete bridge supports – types, structural static design.
12. Special bridges – temporary bridges, movable bridges, floated bridges (basic information).
13. Manufacture and erection of metal bridge structures, examples of realized metal bridges, practical aspects of the design.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Individual task of a project, basic information and requirements for an elaboration.
2. Structural composition of steel bridge with truss or arch main girders (in dependence on the individual task).
3.–5. Static and structural design of the bridge deck (in dependence on the individual task).
6.–9. Static and structural design of main girders (in dependence on the individual task).
10.–11. Static and structural design of bridge bracings (in dependence on the individual task).
12.–13. Elaboration of drawing documentation, project completion.