Course Details

Metal Bridges 2 (DST)

Academic Year 2024/25

NOB033 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Steel-concrete composite bridges – loading actions, the beams in the elastic behaviour (basis of design). 2. Steel-concrete composite bridges – the beams in the plastic bahaviour, shear connections (basis of design). 3. Box girder bridges – specific properties of box girder bridges, the principles of static design, torsion of box girder bridges. 4. Skewed bridges and curved bridges – basis of design. 5. Arch bridges – types of arch bridges, structural composition, basic principles of static and structural design. 6. Arched bridges – specialties of the static design, frame bridges – basic principles. 7. Suspension bridges – basic principles of static and structural design. 8. Cable-stayed bridges – basic principles of static and structural design. 9. Steel and steel-concrete composite bridge supports – types, structural and static design. 10. Manufacture and erection of metal bridges. Examples of realized metal bridges.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 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 main girders (in dependence on the individual task). 3.–4. Static design of the bridge deck (in dependence on the individual task). 5.–6. Static design of main girders (in dependence on the individual task). 7.–8. Static design of bridge bracings (in dependence on the individual task). 9.–10. Structural detailing of selected bridge members or parts, elaboration of drawing documentation, project completion.