Course Details

Members of Metal Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BO002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, situation and perspective of branch development. 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements. 3. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach. 4. Geometric and static characteristics of ope nand closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members. 5. Bolted joints and frictional joints. 6. Fillet welds.Butt welds, plug welds, slott welds. 7. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action. 8. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section. 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact and built-up section. 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending. 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression. 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections. Critical and post-critical load-bearing capacity of a plain girders with thin walls. Resistance of steel structures to the action of repeated load. Factors which influence pulsating fatigue limit of steel structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Loading of building structures. 2.Materials and assortment of structural elements.Method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach. 3.Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members. 4.Bolted joints and frictional joints. 5.Fillet welds. Butt welds, plug welds, slot welds. 6.Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action. 7.Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section. 8.Buckling resistance of compression members with compact section. 9.Buckling resistance of compression members with built-up section. 10.Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending. 11.Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression. 12.Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections.