Course Details
Design of Concrete Structures
Academic Year 2023/24
BLB013 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year
Scale and subject of concrete structure design (input data, codes, documentation). Details and specific cases in dimensioning and design of structural and engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
Modelling load-bearing structures on computer. Software for dimensioning, drawings of shapes and reinforcement and for solution of load-bearing structures. Practical application. Training programme data for solution of selected problems.
Modelling load-bearing structures on computer. Software for dimensioning, drawings of shapes and reinforcement and for solution of load-bearing structures. Practical application. Training programme data for solution of selected problems.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
To gain knowledge about details and special cases in dimensioning and design of load-bearing concrete structures.
Utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
Desing of individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.
Utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
Desing of individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.
Knowledge
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge about details and special cases in dimensioning and design of concrete load-bearing structures.
• Virtue to utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
• Virtue for desinging individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.
• Knowledge about details and special cases in dimensioning and design of concrete load-bearing structures.
• Virtue to utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
• Virtue for desinging individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.
Syllabus
1. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – input data, essential actual codes, regulations.
2. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – project documentation (types, technical report, static calculation, drawings).
3. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
4.–5. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering, load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
6. Software for dimensioning and drawings of profile and reinforcement and for load-bearing structures design.
7.–8. Modelling of the civil and structural engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures on computer.
9.–11. Design of selected reinforced and prestressed structural member.
2. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – project documentation (types, technical report, static calculation, drawings).
3. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
4.–5. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering, load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
6. Software for dimensioning and drawings of profile and reinforcement and for load-bearing structures design.
7.–8. Modelling of the civil and structural engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures on computer.
9.–11. Design of selected reinforced and prestressed structural member.
Prerequisites
stresses, software for structural design of structures, structural models, design of concrete and masonry structures, prestressed concrete
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. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – input data, essential actual codes, regulations.
2. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – project documentation (types, technical report, static calculation, drawings).
3. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
4.–5. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering, load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
6. Software for dimensioning and drawings of profile and reinforcement and for load-bearing structures design.
7.–8. Modelling of the civil and structural engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures on computer.
9.–11. Design of selected reinforced and prestressed structural member.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Determination of vertical alignment in terrain.
2. Post-tensioned bridge beam: Design of bar model, cross-section, design of prestressing force on the bar model with the help of equivalent load.
3. Live load on a bar, application of post-tensioned cable. Cable layout on a bar, progressive construction.
4. Short-terms and long-terms losses of prestressing. Correction.
5. Trapezoidal bridge slab: Design of RC slab model of variable height, loads distribution.
6. Live load on a slab, check of calculation, determination of minimum reinforcement area.
7. Calculation of non-linear deflection influenced by the cracks, reinforcement and creep.
8. Design of prestressing force on a slab model with the help of equivalent load, cable layout in a slab, short-terms losses of prestressing.
9. Pedestrian bridge formed by half-through girders combined with concrete slab: Design of a slab model with the bars on eccentricity (ribs), variable height on a bar, utilization of the areas of rib.
10. Reinforcing: Utilization of programme RECOC. Correction.
11. Project submission. Credit.