Course Details

Selected Chapters of Structural Mechanics 1 (K)

Academic Year 2024/25

BDB012 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Classification of structural materials according to the manner of their failure. Classification of models for mechanical behaviour of materials. 2. Viscoelasticity. Creep and compliance function. Maxwell and Kelvin model/chain. Compliance function for concrete. 3. Plasticity. Physical motivation. Schmid law. Plasticity models for uniaxial and multiaxial stress state. 4. Fracture mechanics. Fundamentals of linear elastic fracture mechanics. 5. Fracture mechanics. Classical nonlinear models. Nonlinear fracture behaviour of quasi-brittle materials. Formation and development of fracture process zone (FPZ). Toughening mechanism in FPZ. 6. Fracture mechanics. Classical nonlinear models. Parameters of cohesive crack models. Fracture mechanics. Fracture models based on continuum mechanics and discrete models. 7. Damage mechanics. Classification of models of failure of concrete and their hierarchy. 8. Stochastic aspects of failure and deformation of structures 9. Interaction of progressive collapse and spatial randomness in concrete structures. 10. Cable in plane – introdiction, fibre polygon, parabolic canetarian curve. 11. Statics of cable in a plane – a cable loaded by arbitrary vertical load, cable equation.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Submission of individual problems to be solved on computer. 2.–10. Work on the tasks with the help of the teacher. 11. Presentation of the results, credits.