Course Details

Selected Chapters of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BLA021 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-EVB Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

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. Development of masonry structures and their design. Materials for masonry structures. Structural arrangement. Strength and deformation properties of masonry. Buckling influence. 2. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements axially or unaxially compressed. Load-bearing capacity of masonry elements stressed by flexure, shear, tension or concentrated pressure. Serviceabiity and detailing. 3. General principles for the design of masonry structures. Design of masonry arches. 4. Service life of the structure. failures - their causes, monitoring and possibilities of reducing their occurrence. Methods of diagnostics survey of concrete and masonry structures. 5. Static conditions for the execution of reconstructions. Strengthening for concrete structures and masonry structures. 6. Strengthening and reconstruction of structures using concrete, steel and wood. Strengthening of foundations. 7. Static solution of superstructures. Temporary protection of structures during strengthening. Deformation of strengthening structures and their time monitoring. Using of bonded carbon strips 8. Behavior of concrete and concrete structures in a fire. Impact of fire on the load-bearing capacity of structures. Assessment of fire resistance, temperature of concrete and reinforcement in case of fire. 9. Principles of the proposal. Design methods for concrete structures exposed to fire - design according to tables. Simplified methods and advanced methods. 10. Properties of masonry exposed to high temperatures. Determination of mechanical and physical characteristics of masonry. Principles of the proposal. Design methods for masonry structures exposed to fire effects. 11. Panel systems, design solution. Parts and their connections. Reconstruction, rehabilitation, superstructures, interventions in the supporting elements of panel systems. 12. Modern composite structures. 13. Basics of environmental design of concrete and masonry structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Material characteristics. Axially loaded brickwork column. 2. Perimeter wall of a building with timber floors. 3. Interaction diagram of a brickwork column of T-shape. 4. Masonry arch. 5. Correction. 6.–7. Strengthening of concrete members subjected to bending moment: Strengthening using additional reinforcement and concrete envelope, Strengthening with carbon fibre reinforced polymer strip. 8.–9. Strengthening of timber floor structure: Reinforced concrete (RC) slab. 10. Correction. 11-12. Design of concrete structures exposed to fire. 13. Project and tasks submission. Credit.