Course Details
Theory of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
DLB040 course is part of 8 study plans
DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year
DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-S Winter Semester 2nd year
DPA-S Winter Semester 2nd year
DKC-S Winter Semester 2nd year
DPC-S Winter Semester 2nd year
General aspects of design methods of concrete and masonry structures. Design of structures using specific methods with respect to the non-linear properties of structures as composite setting. Probabilistic approach to designing. The effects of imposed deformations. Modelling of time-dependent phenomena. Modern methods of design of selected concrete and masonry structures - foundations, special building and engineering structures. Optimisation of design of concrete and masonry structures. Influence and importance of details of designed structure on complete technical solution.
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
structural mechanics, elasticity and plasticity, design of concrete and masonry structures
Aims
Non-linear analysis and optimisation of design of concrete and masonry structures and their parts.
Modelling time-dependent phenomena.
Modern methods of design.
Modelling time-dependent phenomena.
Modern methods of design.
Basic Literature
CURTIN, W. G., G. SHAW and J. K. BECK. Design of Reinforced and Prestressed Masonry. London: Telford, 1988. ISBN 0-7277-1314-0 (en)
DARVIN, David, Charles W. DOLAN, and Artur H. NILSON. Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2016. ISBN 978-0-07-339794-8 (en)
DARVIN, David, Charles W. DOLAN, and Artur H. NILSON. Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2016. ISBN 978-0-07-339794-8 (en)
Recommended Reading
HSU, Tomas and Yi-Lung MO. Unified Theory of Concrete Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-470-68874-8 (en)
Fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010. Lausanne, Switzerland: fib, 2013. ISBN 978-3-43360-408-3 (en)
Fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010. Lausanne, Switzerland: fib, 2013. ISBN 978-3-43360-408-3 (en)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. General aspects of design methods of concrete and masonry structures.
- 2.–3. Physically non-linear behaviour of structures for different stresses.
- 4. Probability-based method.
- 5. Geometric non-linear behaviour of structures.
- 6. The effects of deformation stresses.
- 7. Design of structures using specific methods with respect to the non-linear properties and a model of structure as a composite setting.
- 8.–9. Modelling time-dependent phenomena, stort-term and long-term processes; basic principles.
- 10. Modern methods of design of selected concrete and masonry structures - foundations.
- 11. Modern methods of design of selected concrete and masonry structures - special building structures.
- 12. Modern methods of design of selected concrete and masonry structures - special engineering structures.
- 13. Optimisation of design of concrete and masonry structures. Influence and importance of details of designed structure on complete technical solution.