Course Details

Metal Structures 3

Academic Year 2023/24

NOB032 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Steel towers: categorization; static and dynamic analysis; fatigue strength.
Kotvení stožárů.
Thin-walled cold-formed structures: design principles; specific problems of thin-walled cold-formed structural members; limit states; connections; practical usage.

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

Students have to manage the aim of the subject, make the acquaintance with course problematic and practice their knowledge and acquirements.

Syllabus

1. Steel towers – categorization, load.
2. Steel towers – load.
3. Steel towers - static and dynamic analysis.
4. Fatigue strength.
5. Anchoring of towers, erection and maintenance of towers.
6. Thin-walled cold-formed structural members – basis of design, material properties, cross-section chracteristics.
7. Local and distorsional buckling of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – theoretical principles of the behaviour, basis of design and assessment in engineering practice.
8. Ultimate and serviseability limit states of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – basis of design and assessemnt.
9. Connections of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – mechanical and welded connections.
10. Strustures made of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – examples of realized structures, practical aspects of design and realization.

Prerequisites

Metal structures - design of elements and connections of steel structures. Structural Mechanics, Elasticity and Plasticity.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 credits

Semester

winter

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, load. 2. Steel towers – load. 3. Steel towers - static and dynamic analysis. 4. Fatigue strength. 5. Anchoring of towers, erection and maintenance of towers. 6. Thin-walled cold-formed structural members – basis of design, material properties, cross-section chracteristics. 7. Local and distorsional buckling of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – theoretical principles of the behaviour, basis of design and assessment in engineering practice. 8. Ultimate and serviseability limit states of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – basis of design and assessemnt. 9. Connections of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – mechanical and welded connections. 10. Strustures made of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – examples of realized structures, practical aspects of design and realization.

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. Thin-walled cold-formed structural members – determination of material properties and cross-section characteristics. 7. Local and distorsional buckling of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – cross-section in compression, cross-section in bending. 8. Distirsional buckling of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – cross-section in compression. 9. Ultimate limit states of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – resistances of cross-sections in compression, bending, shear and combination of these effects. 10. Connections of thin-walled cold-formed structural members – capacity of mechanical connections.