Course Details

Members of Concrete Structures

Academic Year 2023/24

BL001 course is part of 3 study plans

B-K-C-SI (N) / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

B-P-C-MI (N) / MI Summer Semester 2nd year

B-P-C-SI (N) / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

Concrete members. Structural characteristic of concrete. Concrete reinforcement and its bond with concrete. Basic principles of design. Design condition of structural materials and the structure itself. Concrete structures durability.
Desing of reinforced concrete members stressed by of bending moment and shear force - ultimate and serviceability limit states, structural principles. Design of reinforced concrete members stressed by combination of axial force and bending moments. Principles of dimensioning for different stresses. Dimensioning of members from plain and low reinforced concrete.
Simple concrete members – one way reinforced slabs, beams, girders, lintels, cantilever structures, columns and stairs.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

To teach the students to the principles of reinforced concrete cross-section dimensioning at the principal stresses.
To gain ability for design of reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with preparing relevant technical drawings.

Knowledge

A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge of the principles of reinforced concrete cross-section dimensioning for general stresses.
• Virtue for designing reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with the ability of preparing relevant technical drawings.

Syllabus

1. Concrete members. Components of concrete. Structural properties of concrete – influencing factors.
2. Types of concrete and reinforcement – their interaction. Theory of concrete structures calculation – load, requirements, action conditions, durability. Ultimate limit states – principle of calculation.
3. Bended members. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment – general and simple method.
4. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment – rectangular sections, common sections, sections stressed by bending moment in incline plane.
5.- 6. Dimensioning of sections stressed by shearing force.
7. Arrangement of reinforcement in a girder – structural principles. Reinforcement of bended structural members.
8. Principles of design and reinforcing – stairs.
9.-10. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment and normal force.
11. Dimensioning of sections for different stresses. Dimensioning of members from plain and low reinforced concrete.
12. Design of members stressed by bending moment according to limit state of serviceability. Volume changes of concrete.

Prerequisites

technical mathematics, technical physics, structural mechanics, theory of elasticity, loads, basic principles of structures design

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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. Concrete members. Components of concrete. Structural properties of concrete – influencing factors. 2. Types of concrete and reinforcement – their interaction. Theory of concrete structures calculation – load, requirements, action conditions, durability. Ultimate limit states – principle of calculation. 3. Bended members. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment – general and simple method. 4. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment – rectangular sections, common sections, sections stressed by bending moment in incline plane. 5.- 6. Dimensioning of sections stressed by shearing force. 7. Arrangement of reinforcement in a girder – structural principles. Reinforcement of bended structural members. 8. Principles of design and reinforcing – stairs. 9.-10. Dimensioning of sections stressed by bending moment and normal force. 11. Dimensioning of sections for different stresses. Dimensioning of members from plain and low reinforced concrete. 12. Design of members stressed by bending moment according to limit state of serviceability. Volume changes of concrete.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Load and its calculation, combination and effects. Idealisation of basic structural members. Design of cast-in-place reinforced concrete structure – project: Defined task, preliminary design of dimensions, analyse of structural solution and static system, scheme of shape of structure. 2. Basic materials of reinforced concrete, interaction of concrete and reinforcement, durability of concrete members. 3. Bended members, design and assessment of the slabs: single supported floor slab – load, action of forces, dimensioning for bend and shear, transverse reinforcement, anchorage of reinforcement, modification of reinforcement in the areas of partial fixation, scheme of reinforcement. 4. Design and assessment of slabs: continuous floor slab – load, action of forces (redistribution of forces), dimensioning for bend, scheme of reinforcement. 5. Design and assessment of flat floor beam - load, action of forces, dimensioning for bend (T-section, comparison with rectangular cross-section). 6. Framed member of general cross-section stressed by bend – general method, application on cantilever beam (example). 7. Correction. 8. Slab floor girder – dimensioning for shear, axial shear, curtailment of reinforcement. 9. Design and assessment of a lintel - load, action of forces, dimensioning for bend, shear, direct and indirect bedding of girder, scheme of reinforcement. Reinforcement of rings. Drawings of reinforcement of calculated members. 10. Vertical framed concrete structures: RC column stressed by eccentric pressure – load, action of forces, verification of load-bearing capacity via interactive diagram (example). 11. Correction. 12. Project submission. Credit.