Course Details

Concrete Structures 1

Academic Year 2024/25

BLA002 course is part of 3 study plans

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 3rd year

BKC-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

BPA-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

Reinforced concrete monolithic structures – one- and multi-storey frame structures and their structural elements. Design principles of cast-in-place foundation structures – wall footing, strip, grid and mat foundation.
Dimensioning reinforced concrete members considering theirs limit serviceability.
Two-ways slabs – edge supported. Circular and annular slabs. Two-way ribbed and cassette slabs. Wall beams – simple and continuous.
Construction and expansion joints in concrete structures. Realisation and control of concrete structures.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

technical mathematics, technical physics, structural mechanics, theory of elasticity, loads, design of concrete members, foundation of buildings, static analysis of load-bearing structures using a computer

Aims

To teach the students to design reinforced framed concrete structures and simple foundation structures.
Understanding of the behaviour of flat concrete structure. Design of stab and wall concrete structures.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge of designing framed reinforced concrete structures and simple foundation structures.
• Understanding to the behaviour of flat concrete structures.
• Designing slab and wall concrete structures.

Basic Literature

ČÍRTEK, Ladislav. Betonové konstrukce II. Konstrukce prutové a základové. Brno: VUTIUM, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1543-6. (cs)
ZICH, Miloš a BAŽANT, Zdeněk. Plošné betonové konstrukce, nádrže a zásobníky. Brno: CERM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-693-5. (cs)
PROCHÁZKA, Jaroslav a ŠTEMBERK, Petr. Design Procedures for Reinforced Concrete Structures. Praha: ČVUT, 2009. ISBN 978-80-01-04240-3. (en)

Recommended Reading

McCORMAC, Jack C. a BROWN, Russell H. Design of Reinforced Concrete. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-27927-4. (en)
NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles. Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (en)
Elektronické studijní opory FAST VUT
Čírtek Ladislav. Betonové konstrukce prutové. 78 stran, 2005; Čírtek Ladislav, Zich Miloš. Základové konstrukce. 51 stran, 2005; Bažant Zdeněk. Betonové konstrukce plošné I. 56 stran, 2006; Bažant Zdeněk. Betonové konstrukce plošné II. 73 stran, 2005 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Multi-storey frame structures – system arrangement, loading, design, space stiffness – bracing.
  • 2. Multi-storey frame structures – structural analysis, reduction and redistribution of internal forces.
  • 3. Multi-storey frame structures – reinforcement detailing, constructive principles.
  • 4.–5. Serviceability of reinforced concrete structures – stress limitation, cracks control, deflection control.
  • 6.–7. Principles of design of cast in place foundation structures – reinforced and plain concrete footing, continuous footings and grids.
  • 8. Single-storey frame structures – pointed and arched girder, corbels.
  • 9. Two-way edge supported slabs – structural arrangement, structural analysis, reinforcement.
  • 10. Continuous two-way slabs – principle of solution, reinforcement detailing. Slabs partially edge supported.
  • 11. Serviceability of two-way slabs. Slabs of common shape.
  • 12. Circular and annular slabs. Waffle slabs.
  • 13. Simple supported and continuous deep girders. Work joints and expansion gaps in structures. Manufacturing and control of structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Cast-in-place RC framed structure – preliminary design of dimensions, scheme of shape of structure, load, loading states for internal frame.
  • 2. Calculation of internal forces of the frame.
  • 3. Calculation of internal forces of the frame – continuation, combination of loads.
  • 4. Dimensioning of cross beam for bend and shear (stirrups, eventually also bends).
  • 5. Curtailment of reinforcement of cross beam. Checking.
  • 6. Dimensioning of one internal column.
  • 7. Structural solution and dimensioning of single footing below internal column.
  • 8. Drawings of reinforcement of the cross beam, single footing and column. Checking.
  • 9. Serviceability limit states – deformation, cracks.
  • 10. Two-way slab – preliminary design, load, internal forces, dimensioning – design of reinforcement.
  • 11. Rebar or netting reinforcing.
  • 12. Final checking.
  • 13. Project submission. Credit.