Course Details

Concrete Structures 3

Academic Year 2023/24

BLB006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Shallow foundations – detailing design of wall footings, grid and mat foundations, slabs. Footings of precast structures. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations. Deep foundations – piles, group of piles, footings above piles. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls. Drop caissons and caissons. Foundations dynamically loaded. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Selected structures of engineering constructions - storage structures (bunkers and silos), storage tanks for liquids, water towers, channels and ducts. Design of constructions and foundations in the undermining areas.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Design of different type of concrete load-bearing structures.
Design of foundations in conventional and special conditions.
Design of selected structures of engineering structures, containers, tanks, pipelines.

Knowledge

A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Design of different type of concrete load-bearing structures.
• Design of foundations in conventional and special conditions.
• Design of selected engineering structures, containers, tanks, pipelines.

Syllabus

1. Foundation structures as a part of the reliability system “subsoil – foundation – overground structure”. Results of geological survey. Foundations reliability. Limit states of subsoil and foundation structures load-bearing capacity.
2. Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Comprehensive and simplified interactive system. Modelling of subsoil and foundation structures. Software Soilin.
3. Shallow foundations. Distribution of contact stress in footing bottom. Detail design of footings from plain and reinforced concrete. Detail design of uniformly pressed continuous footing.
4. Shallow foundations. Detail design of grid and mat foundations, slabs.
5. Shallow foundations. Footings of precast structures (pocket foundation) – detail design. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations.
6. Deep foundations. Limit states of subsoil and pile. Pile foundations, group of piles, footings above piles. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls.
7. Foundations dynamically loaded. Response of machines on dynamic load action.
8. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Foundation structures at reconstructions.
9. Design of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Structural arrangement, pressure of fillers, principles of solution. Dimensioning and reinforcing of individual member of storage tanks.
10. Design of rectangular and rotary symmetric reservoirs. Water reservoirs.
11. Design of channels and ducts. Principles of structures and foundations design in the undermining areas.

Prerequisites

geotechnics, structural mechanics, theory of elasticity, design of concrete members and structures

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. Foundation structures as a part of the reliability system “subsoil – foundation – overground structure”. Results of geological survey. Foundations reliability. Limit states of subsoil and foundation structures load-bearing capacity. 2. Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Comprehensive and simplified interactive system. Modelling of subsoil and foundation structures. Software Soilin. 3. Shallow foundations. Distribution of contact stress in footing bottom. Detail design of footings from plain and reinforced concrete. Detail design of uniformly pressed continuous footing. 4. Shallow foundations. Detail design of grid and mat foundations, slabs. 5. Shallow foundations. Footings of precast structures (pocket foundation) – detail design. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations. 6. Deep foundations. Limit states of subsoil and pile. Pile foundations, group of piles, footings above piles. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls. 7. Foundations dynamically loaded. Response of machines on dynamic load action. 8. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Foundation structures at reconstructions. 9. Design of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Structural arrangement, pressure of fillers, principles of solution. Dimensioning and reinforcing of individual member of storage tanks. 10. Design of rectangular and rotary symmetric reservoirs. Water reservoirs. 11. Design of channels and ducts. Principles of structures and foundations design in the undermining areas.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Footing – Geotechnical category I – task, load. 2. Footing – Geotechnical category II – ultimate limit states of foundation base. 3. Footing – Geotechnical category II – serviceability limit states (settlement). 4. Footing – ultimate limit states of bending moment and punching. 5. Continuous Footing – task, simplified methods. 6. Continuous Footing on elastic foundation. 7. Raft foundations – task, load, simplified methods. 8. Raft foundations – Interactive model of system subsoil – foundation. 9. Pile foundations – task, design of cap for group of piles 10. Pile foundations – design of pile. 11. Project submission. Credit.