Course Details
Timber Structures (K)
Academic Year 2023/24
BOA007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 3rd year
Historical development of timber structures, view of timber application in structures. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes. Standards for structural design.
Limit states and rules of computer modelling. Basic types of strain of timber members and their verifying.
Fasteners – mechanical connections, glued connections.
Plane solid and truss structures – girders, frames, and arches. Rules of structural design and theoretical analysis.
Spatial structures – laminated structures, spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults and shells.
Timber bridges and footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
Production and assembly. Protection and maintenance.
Fire resistance of timber buildings.
Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Examples of realized timber structures.
Limit states and rules of computer modelling. Basic types of strain of timber members and their verifying.
Fasteners – mechanical connections, glued connections.
Plane solid and truss structures – girders, frames, and arches. Rules of structural design and theoretical analysis.
Spatial structures – laminated structures, spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults and shells.
Timber bridges and footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
Production and assembly. Protection and maintenance.
Fire resistance of timber buildings.
Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Examples of realized timber structures.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquired knowledge and skills.
Knowledge
Student will learn and get under control the aims of matter in
teachings, focused especially to problems of design of timber elements,timber constructions and bridges, in term of content amplificated more in detail in the schedule of related training subject.
teachings, focused especially to problems of design of timber elements,timber constructions and bridges, in term of content amplificated more in detail in the schedule of related training subject.
Syllabus
1. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
Prerequisites
Mathematics, structural mechanics, elasticity and plasticity, section characteristics, design principles of structures, loads of structural systems, structural materials.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
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. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering.
2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics.
3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes
4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading.
5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying.
6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements.
7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details.
8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures.
9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints.
10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids.
11. Timber footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance.
13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes.
2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modelling.
3. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or axial compression.
4. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections.
5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of timber structures.
6. Plane truss structures: Examples of design and detailing.
7. Space rigidity of the roofing systems, bracings.
8.–13. Individual assignments of the design of the timber roofing structure. Disposition arrangement and loading, design and detailing.