Course Details

Selected Chapters of Metal and Timber Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

NOB022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Standards for design of steel towers.
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.
Advanced types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details.
Analysis of timber floor vibration.
Wood to concrete structures.
Exploration, reconstruction and strengthening of timber structures.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Bajer, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

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

Aims

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

Basic Literature

Ferjenčík, P.a Schun, J. a Melcher, J. a kol.: Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií, ALFA Bratislava, 1986 (sk)
Blass, H. J. a kol.: Dřevěné konstrukce podle Eurokódu 5. STEP 2. Navrhování detailů a nosných systémů, Informační centrum ČKAIT, 2004 (cs)
Larsen, H., Enjily, V.: Practical design of timber structures to Eurocode 5, London, Thomas Telford Limited, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7277-3609-3 (en)

Recommended Reading

Krämer, V.; Koželouh, B.: Dřevěné konstrukce. Příklady a řešení podle ČSN 73 1702. ČKAIT 2009, ISBN 978-80-87438-16-9 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/282185

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Steel towers – categorization.
  • 2. Load of steel towers.
  • 3. Steel towers – static and dynamic analysis.
  • 4. Fatigue strength.
  • 5. Anchoring of towers, erection and maintenance of towers.
  • 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.
  • 8. Advanced types of connections used in present timber structures and examples of selected details.
  • 9. Analysis of timber floor vibration.
  • 10. Wood to concrete structures, principles of their designing and structural solution.
  • 11. Exploration and reconstruction of timber structures – examples of the reconstruction of selected structures.
  • 12. Strengthening of timber structures – examples of the strengthening 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.–3. Static and dynamic analysis.
  • 4. Fatigue strength.
  • 5. Anchoring of towers.
  • 6. Design automation of steel towers.
  • 7.–9. Analysis of selected timber structural types.
  • 10.–12. Wood to concrete structures.
  • 13. Examples of the reconstruction of selected structures.