Course Details
Constructions and Transport Buildings
Academic Year 2026/27
BMA101-K course is part of 1 study plan
BKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
Transport structures: introduction to transport structures, interesting facts about transport, road structures - briefly the principles of route design and design, local / access roads, materials for roads and technology for the construction of flexible pavement roads, railway structures - briefly the principles of design and the main differences from roads, materials for railways and technology for the construction.
Construction of buildings: introduction to basic building construction systems, Basic materials used for masonry, concrete, metal and wooden structures. Principles of design of load-bearing structures, concept of limit states, reliability of structures, climatic loads. Calculations of internal forces, characteristics of cross-sections of building elements and principles of their assessment.
Credits
4 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
Knowledge: The student understands and can analyze the properties of basic building materials and can recognize their use in building structures.
Skills: The student evaluates and compares the properties of basic building materials and structures, records the influence of environmental conditions on basic building structures (changes in temperature, state of the material).
Competence: The student can use the acquired knowledge and skills in the context of determining the optimal use of road materials and basic building structures.
Aims
Professional knowledge
The student understands and is able to use basic terminology in the field of design and assessment of load-bearing structures and transport structures. The student is able to summarize and classify individual types of load-bearing structures and transport structures. The student distinguishes basic types of building materials and their properties.
Skills
The student is able to further use the above knowledge in relation to further work and development of skills in the field of design and assessment of load-bearing structures and transport structures. He is able to determine the basic loads of structures and is able to work with basic principles, rules and procedures in the design of selected metal, wooden and concrete structures, as well as within the framework of transport structures (road and railway).
Competencies
The student is able to use the above knowledge and skills in further study of more demanding issues of detailed principles and procedures in the design of load-bearing structures and transport structures.
Basic Literature
Holický, M., Marková, J., Sýkora, M.: Zatížení stavebních konstrukcí, ČKAIT, 2010, ISBN 978-80-87093-89-4. (cs)
Puchrík, J.: Dopravní stavby, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004, ISBN 80-214-2814-7. (cs)
Recommended Reading
ČSN EN 1991 (ed. 2) Eurokód: Obecná zatížení, Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví (UNMZ), 2020. (cs)
Mehta, M., Scarborough, W., Armpriest, D.: Building construction: principles, materials, and systems, NY: Pearson, 2018, ISBN 978-0-13-445417-7. (en)
Technologie prací na železničním svršku, ČKAIT, 2019, ISBN 978-80-88265-17-7. (cs)
Zajíček, J.: Technologie stavby vozovek, ČKAIT, 2014, ISBN 978-80-87438-59-6. (cs)
Prerequisites
Knowledge: The student understands and can analyze the properties of basic building materials and can recognize their use in building structures.
Skills: The student evaluates and compares the properties of basic building materials and structures, records the influence of environmental conditions on basic building structures (changes in temperature, state of the material).
Competence: The student can use the acquired knowledge and skills in the context of determining the optimal use of road materials and basic building structures.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
6 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction to transport structures. Characteristics of basic modes of transport. Modern trends in transport.
2. Road structures – introduction to road construction.
3. Road structures – route design and design of roadways.
4. Road structures – materials for roads, principles of road construction technology, modern technological trends in transport infrastructure.
5. Railway structures – principles of railway design.
6. Railway structures – principles of railway construction technology.
7. Classification and terminology of types of load-bearing structures of building and engineering structures and bridges.
8. Basic materials used for masonry and concrete load-bearing structures of buildings.
9. Load-bearing structural systems of concrete and masonry structures.
10. Principles of load-bearing structure design, concept of limit states, reliability of structures.
11. Materials for metal structures. Load-bearing systems of buildings with metal structures.
12. Materials for wooden structures. Supporting systems of buildings with wooden structures.
13. Lecture by an expert/experts from practice about interesting realized structures.
Self-study
66 weeks, 1 hours/week
Syllabus
Self-study is based on studying current topics according to recommended literature.
Individual preparation for an ending of the course
26 weeks, 1 hours/week
Syllabus
The student regularly meets with the teacher in consultations (concentration) and thus has the opportunity to interact with the teacher, which allows him to correctly understand the given knowledge.
Individual preparation is mainly supported by self-study.