Course Details

Metal and Structural Glass in Load-Bearing Structures of Buildings

Academic Year 2024/25

BOA017 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-EVB Winter Semester 3rd year

The course is focused on basic principles of static behaviour, design and structural detailing of structural members and systems of multi-storey buildings, with the accent on the using of metals and structural glass in load-bearing structure. The part of the course is also knowledge of material properties of stainless steel, aluminium alloys and structural glass and their behaviour and application in load-bearing structure of buildings, basic cases of the behaviour, static and structural design and practical assessment of load-bearing structural members made of stainless steel, aluminium alloys and structural glass, including principles of the production and errection of the buildings with load-bearing structure made of metals and structural glass.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Statics of civil engineering structures, elasticity and plasticity; properties and testing of building materials; principles of the behaviour, design and assessment of structural members and connections of steel load-bearing structures; principles of the compositional arrangement and structural detailing of steel load-bearing systems of buildings.

Basic Literature

Ferjenčík, P., Lederer, F., Schun, J., Melcher, J., Voříšek, V., Chladný, E. Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií, 2. časť, ALFA Bratislava / SNTL Praha, 1985, 472 s. (sk)
Marek, P. a kol. Kovové konstrukce pozemních staveb, SNTL Praha 1985, 652 s. (cs)
Glass Structures and Engineering, edited by J. Belis et al, Springer 2016, 350 pp. ISSN 2363-5142. (en)
ESDEP - European Steel Design Education Programme, SCI, London, CD ROM. (en)

Recommended Reading

Aktuálně platné normativní dokumenty související s obsahem předmětu. (cs)
Karmazínová, M., Pilgr, M. Ocelové konstrukce vícepodlažních budov - pomůcka pro cvičení, skriptum FAST VUT, Brno, 2004. (cs)
Bujňák, J. Spriahnuté oceľobetónové prefabrikované konštrukcie budov, EDIS - vydavateľstvo UNIZA, Žilina 2021, 109 s. ISBN 978-80-554-1854-4. (sk)
Lehar, F., Opatřil, J. Ocelové skelety budov, SNTL, Praha 1971 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Contemporary trends in the development of multi-storey buildings with metal load-bearing structure (development of the forms, materials and their combinations, technologies). Examples of the realizations.
  • 2. Development and perspectives of the using multi-storey buildings - traditional structural systems of multi-storey buildings, modern multi-storey buildings with the application of materials based on metals (not only usual "normal" steels, but also high-strength steels, aluminium and its alloys) and structural glass in load-bearing structure.
  • 3. Structural systems of multi-storey buildings with steel and steel-concrete load-bearing structure. Spatial rigidity, bracings and stiffening systems.
  • 4. Roof structures of multi-storey buildings. Roof claddings made of metals and structural glass.
  • 5. Load-bearing ceiling and floor structures of multi-storey buildings. Utilization of castellated beams and their design. Steel-concrete composite ceiling and floor structures.
  • 6. Structures of facades and wall claddings of multi-storey buildings. Facades and wall claddings made of metals and structural glass.
  • 7. Columns of multi-storey buildings, column bases and anchorage.
  • 8. Structural glass in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings - glass as a material (physical and mechanical properties of glass, surface treatments), glass types (float glass, tempered glass - hardened, chemically treated glass, laminated and safety glass), experimental verification of glass properties.
  • 9. Design of compression and bending structural glass load-bearing members, including stability lost (compression buckling, lateral-torsional buckling), and their application in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings - columns, beams, stiffening ribs of fasades and load-bearing claddings made of structural glass, hybrid beams composed of structural glass in combination with other materials (metal, timber, etc.).
  • 10. Design of plated load-bearing structural members made of structural glass and their application in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings - floors, stairs and railing made of structural glass.
  • 11. Stainless steel in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings - physical and mechanical properties of stainless steel, principles of the design of stainless steel load-bearing structural members, subjected to tension, compression, bending and differences comparing with normal steel, application of stainless steel in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings.
  • 12. Aluminium and its alloys in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings - physical and mechanical properties of aluminium and its alloys, principles of the design of aluminium load-bearing structures subjected to tension, compression, bending and differences comparing with steel, application of aluminium and its alloys in load-bearing structures of multi-storey buildings.
  • 13. Production and errection of multi-storey buildings with metal load-bearing structure. Reconstruction and strengthening of multi-storey buildings with metal load-bearing structure. Catastrofic events (e.g. earthquake) and their influence on the design concept of multi-storey buildings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Individual assignment of a project - multi-storey building.
  • 2. Layout arrangement.
  • 3. Loading actions.
  • 4. Design of load-bearing structure of building claddings.
  • 5. Static design of roof structure.
  • 6. Static design of ceiling and floor structure.
  • 7. Static design of load-bearing columns of building.
  • 8. Design of column bases and anchorage.
  • 9. Spatial rigidity of load-bearing system, bracings.
  • 10. - 13. Design of structural details and elaboration of drawing documentation.