Course Details

Metal Bridges 2 (KON)

Academic Year 2025/26

NOB028 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295873

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.