Course Details

Load-Bearing Structures 1

Academic Year 2024/25

BLA022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 2nd year

Principles and rules of design. Stress and its effect. Properties of the material for concrete structures. Design of reinforced concrete members stressed by the bending moment, normal force, shearing force and by torsion. Essential types of members. Members from plain concrete.
Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures. Material and assortment of structural members. Principles and rules reliability, method of limit states. Joints of the steel structures. Tension frames. Bend of beams. Stability and buckling load-bearing capacity of compressed frames. Beams tilting. The load-bearing capacity of slender walls.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. František Girgle, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

principles of structural mechanics and elasticity

Aims

To gain ability for design of reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with preparing relevant technical drawings.
To design steel members and their joints.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Virtue for designing reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with preparing relevant technical drawings.
• Virtue for designing steel members and their joints.

Basic Literature

NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles. Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (en)
PROCHÁZKA, Jaroslav, ŠTĚPÁNEK, Petr, KRÁTKÝ, Jiří, KOHOUTKOVÁ, Alena a VAŠKOVÁ, Jitka: Navrhování betonových konstrukcí 1. Prvky z prostého a železového betonu, Praha: ČBS Servis, 2009,  ISBN 978-80-903807-5-2. (cs)
BILČÍK, Juraj, FILLO, Ľudovít, BENKO, Vladimír a HALVONÍK, Jaroslav: Betónové konštrukcie. Navrhovanie podľa EN 1992-1-1., Bratislava: STU, 2008 (sk)
ZICH, Miloš a kol.: Příklady posouzení betonových prvků dle Eurokódů, Praha: Verlag Dashöfer, 2010 (cs)
PILGR Milan: Kovové konstrukce. Navrhování prvků ocelových konstrukcí, CERM, Brno, 2019 (cs)
BUJŇÁK, Ján, VIČAN, Josef: Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií, Žilina, 2012 (sk)

Recommended Reading

ČÍRTEK, Ladislav. Betonové konstrukce II. Konstrukce prutové a základové. Brno: VUTIUM, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1543-6. (cs)
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute, Ascot, U.K. ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme, CD ROM. ESDEP Society, 2000 (en)
FERJENČÍK, Pavel et al. Navrhovanie ocelových konštrukcií, 1. časť, 2. časť. Bratislava: Alfa, 1986. (sk)
Elektronické studijní opory FAST VUT
Terzijski Ivailo. Základy navrhování konstrukcí. 66 stran, 2007; Panáček Josef. Dimenzování betonových prvků 1. 70 stran, 2007; Štěpánek Petr, Zmek Bohuskav. Dimenzování betonových prvků 2. 50 stran, 2007; Štěpánek Petr, Zmek Bohuskav. Dimenzování betonových prvků 3. 64 stran, 2007; Čírtek Ladislav. Navrhování jednoduchých prvků. 64 stran, 2007; Bajer Miroslav, Melcher Jindřich. Materiál a konstrukční prvky ocelových konstrukcí. 48 stran, 2005; Bajer Miroslav, Pilgr Milan, Veselka Miloslav. Konstrukce - obecný postup při návrhu stavebních konstrukcí. 43 stran, 2004; Karmazinová Marcela, Sýkora Karel, Šmak Milan. Konstrukce - základní typy konstrukcí, konstrukční řešení staveb, mosty. 42 stran, 2008; Karmazínová Marcela. Spoje kovových konstrukcí. 48 stran, 2006; Bajer, Karmazínová, Melcher, Sýkora. Pruty namáhané tahem a tlakem. 57 stran, 2005; Bajer Miroslav, Melcher Jindřich. Pruty namáhané smykem a ohybem. 38 stran, 2005; Bajer, Karmazínová, Melcher, Sýkora. Pruty namáhané kroucením. 32 stran, 2005; Karmazínová Marcela. Únosnost štíhlých stěn. 32 stran, 2006; Bajer Miroslav, Melcher Jindřich. Navrhování ocelových konstrukcí na mezní stav únavy. 28 stran, 2005 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281524

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Type of load-bearing structures, their characteristics and applicability. Principles and rules of design.
  • 2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses.
  • 3. Properties of materials for concrete structures. Concrete structures sorting.
  • 4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress.
  • 5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment.
  • 6.-7. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels. Structures of stairs. Plain concrete.
  • 8.-9. Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Material and assortment of structural members.
  • 10. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of the limit states.
  • 11. Joints of steel structures – principles of design and structural solution.
  • 12. Tension members. Bending of beams. Stability and buckling strength of compressed members of massive, jointed and compound sections.
  • 13. Tilting of beams. The load-bearing capacity of slender walls.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 2. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete slab within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
  • 4. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment.
  • 6. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the shearing force.
  • 8. Structural requirement and reinforcement drawing of the designed members.
  • 12. Basic strain types and dimensioning of the steel structure members – bending moment, simple compression, buckling compression. Basic joint types of the steel structure members.
  • 13. Credit.