Course Details

Selected Chapters of Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2023/24

CO053 course is part of 1 study plan

N-P-C-SI (N) / S Summer Semester 1st year

Standards for design of metal structures.
Steel towers: categorization; static and dynamic analysis; fatigue strength.
Design of steel towers.
Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements.
New types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details.
Spatial timber and combined member structures.
Timber shalls, vaults and lamellar structures.
Exploration, reconstruction and strengthening of timber structures.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

Knowledge

Student will learn the problems of the course and will get under controll the course aims, within the meaning of obtaining knowledge and skills in the field of special topics of design and realization of metal and timber structures, concretized in the course schedule.

Syllabus

1. Steel towers – categorization.
2. Load of steel towers.
3. Design of steel towers
4. Steel towers - static and dynamic analysis.
5. Fatigue strength.
6. Software for design and analysis of steel structures, design automation.
7. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 1. Part: Characteristics and arrangement of selected structural types.
8. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 2. Part: Analysis of selected structural types, principles of designing and realization - special hall structures, frame houses, towers and bridges.
9. New types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details. Wood-concrete beams – principles of designing and structural solution.
10. Spatial timber and combined member structures: Timber member domes and vaults – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution.
11. Timber shells, vaults and lamellar structures – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution.
12. Exploration, reconstruction and strengthening of timber structures – examples of the reconstruction of selected structures.
13. Examples of realized structures and practical design aspects.

Prerequisites

Rules for design of metal and timber structures, static action of bearing systems. Mechanics, Elasticity and Plasticity.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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. Steel towers – categorization. 2. Load of steel towers. 3. Design of steel towers 4. Steel towers - static and dynamic analysis. 5. Fatigue strength. 6. Software for design and analysis of steel structures, design automation. 7. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 1. Part: Characteristics and arrangement of selected structural types. 8. Present and perspective structures made from wood, wood based materials and steel elements – 2. Part: Analysis of selected structural types, principles of designing and realization - special hall structures, frame houses, towers and bridges. 9. New types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details. Wood-concrete beams – principles of designing and structural solution. 10. Spatial timber and combined member structures: Timber member domes and vaults – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution. 11. Timber shells, vaults and lamellar structures – types of structures, principles of their designing and structural solution. 12. Exploration, reconstruction and strengthening of timber structures – examples of the reconstruction of selected structures. 13. Examples of realized structures and practical design aspects.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Steel towers – load. 2. - 4. Static and dynamic analysis. 4. Fatigue strength. 5. - 6. Design automation. 7. - 9. Analysis of selected timber structural types. 10. - 12. Timber shells, vaults and lamellar structures. 13. Examples of the reconstruction of selected structures.