Course Details

Engineering and Transport Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BOA001 course is part of 3 study plans

BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Basic types of building and engineering structures. 2. Materials for civil structures. 3. Basic types of concrete, masonry, steel and timber structures. 4. Loading of building structure, load classification, kinds of loading actions, load cases and their combinations. 5. Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures. 6. Basis of structural design of buildings. 7. Concrete, steel and timber bridges and footbridges. 8. Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Transportation terminology and basic concepts. Alignment and profile of the line. 9. Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR. Structural and geometrical arrangement of road structures. 10. Urban road. 11. Technologies for road construction. Road types. 12. Permanent way and subgrade. 13. Railway stations. Airports.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures. 2.–3. Basic types of building and engineering structures: basic types of concrete, masonry, steel and timber structures, concrete, steel and timber bridges and footbridges, basis of structural design of buildings. 4.–5. Materials for civil structures: basic building materials, their physical-mechanical properties, advantages and disadvantages. 6. Loading of building structures, load classification, load types and values, load cases and their combinations. 7. Basic terminology. Design both of road communications and railway lines. Alignment – design of road axis, circular curve. 8. Horizontal alignment – transition curve (clothoid), transitioned simple curve. 9. Vertical alignment – design of levelling. 10. Drawings – layout drawing, profile. 11. Road cathegories, road cross section. 12. Cross section of railway track, drainage, earthwork structures. 13. Final control of tasks elaborated.