Course Details
Modelling of Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
DLB041 course is part of 4 study plans
DKA-K Winter Semester 2nd year
DPA-K Winter Semester 2nd year
DKC-K Winter Semester 2nd year
DPC-K Winter Semester 2nd year
The truss analogy method for concrete structures design, principles for the set up and application of strut-tie model, application for design of reinforcement of selected structural details. Framed members subjected to shear, truss analogy and compression field theory. Composite structures concrete-concrete. Structural design of step-by-step constructed structures, approximate calculation methods of rheological effects solution, time discretisation method. Temperature stressed structures - principles of solution and the application.
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
structural mechanics, elasticity and plasticity, principles of calculation of the creep and shrinkage effects of concrete on concrete structures design
Aims
Providing information about the modern methods of concrete members design using a truss analogy.
Knowledge of the methods for analysis of concrete structure details and for solution of interaction of force effects on a concrete section.
Understanding of the methods for analysis of long-term effects of concrete and composite structures in view of the rheological properties of concrete.
Explanation of the design method of temperature stressed structures.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge of the modern methods of concrete members design using a truss analogy.
• Knowledge of the methods for analysis of concrete structure details and for solution of interaction of force effects on a concrete section.
• Understanding of the methods for analysis of long-term effects of concrete and composite structures in view of the rheological properties of concrete.
• Understanding of the design method of temperature stressed structures.
Knowledge of the methods for analysis of concrete structure details and for solution of interaction of force effects on a concrete section.
Understanding of the methods for analysis of long-term effects of concrete and composite structures in view of the rheological properties of concrete.
Explanation of the design method of temperature stressed structures.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge of the modern methods of concrete members design using a truss analogy.
• Knowledge of the methods for analysis of concrete structure details and for solution of interaction of force effects on a concrete section.
• Understanding of the methods for analysis of long-term effects of concrete and composite structures in view of the rheological properties of concrete.
• Understanding of the design method of temperature stressed structures.
Basic Literature
ŠMERDA, Zdeněk a KŘÍSTEK, Vladimír: Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete Elements and Structures, SNTL, Praha 1988, ISBN 978-0-444-989-376 (en)
HSU, Tomas. T. C. a MO, Y. L: Unified Theory of Concrete Structures, Wiley 2010, ISBN: 978-0-470-68874-8 (en)
BAŽANT, Zdeněk P. a L´HERMITE, Robert: Mathematical Modelling of Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete, John Wiley and Sons, New York 1988, ISBN 047-1-920-576 (en)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav. Předpjaté betonové konstrukce. Brno: CERM, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7204-561-7. (cs)
COLLINS, Michael P. a MITCHELL, Denis. Prestressed Concrete Structures. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1991. ISBN 0-13-691635-X (en)
BACHMAN, Hubert a STEINLE, Alfred: Precast Concrete Structures. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2011. ISBN 978-3-433-02960-2.
HSU, Tomas. T. C. a MO, Y. L: Unified Theory of Concrete Structures, Wiley 2010, ISBN: 978-0-470-68874-8 (en)
BAŽANT, Zdeněk P. a L´HERMITE, Robert: Mathematical Modelling of Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete, John Wiley and Sons, New York 1988, ISBN 047-1-920-576 (en)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav. Předpjaté betonové konstrukce. Brno: CERM, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7204-561-7. (cs)
COLLINS, Michael P. a MITCHELL, Denis. Prestressed Concrete Structures. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1991. ISBN 0-13-691635-X (en)
BACHMAN, Hubert a STEINLE, Alfred: Precast Concrete Structures. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2011. ISBN 978-3-433-02960-2.
Recommended Reading
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav. Prestressed Concrete Structures. Ostrava: VŠB - TU, 2014. ISBN 978- 80-248-3625-6 (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. Modern aspects of structures modelling. Application of the truss analogy method for concrete structures design.
- 2. Principles for the set up and application of strut-tie model.
- 3. Relation of the truss analogy method to concrete structures dimensioning.
- 4. Application of strut-tie model for design of reinforcement of selected structural details.
- 5. Framed members subjected to shear.
- 6.–7. Composite structures concrete-concrete.
- 8. Compression field theory. Interaction of the force effects using compression field theory.
- 9. Structural design of step-by-step constructed structures.
- 10. Effects of creep and shrinkage on structures.
- 11. Approximate calculation methods of rheological effects solution.
- 12. Method of time discretisation.
- 13. Temperature stressed structures - principles of solution and the methods application on specific concrete structures.