Course Details
Timber structures
Academic Year 2023/24
BOA018 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year
The student will learn and master basic principles and methods of design of load-bearing members of timber structures, as well as basics of design of selected types of structural systems, such as lamellar structures, space rod systems, ribbed dome, arch and shell structures, as well as timber footbridges and bridges. They will also methods and procedures of design of realistic structural members and components in the sense of standardized European documents. Partial problems of the course teaching include issues of characteristic quantities, design of joints, design of tension bars, beams, torsion and compression bars. The principles of rehabilitation and reconstruction of timber structures and examples of realized timber construction systems are also included in the course. In general, the content of the course is focused on the reliability and effectiveness of the load-bearing structures.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Syllabus
1. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
Prerequisites
Basics of academic mathematics, physics and chemistry, probability theory and mathematical statistics, structural analysis, elasticity and plasticity, properties and testing of building materials. Mechanics of bars, plates and walls, numerical methods, computer support for design.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes.
2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modelling.
3. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or axial compression.
4. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections.
5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of timber structures.
6. Plane truss structures: Examples of design and detailing.
7. Space rigidity of the roofing systems, bracings.
8. – 13. Individual assignments of the design of the timber roofing structure. Disposition arrangement and loading, design and detailing.