1. Basic concepts, bridge terminology, main parts of the bridge, standards for the design and realization of steel bridges. Reliability and limit states of steel bridge structures. 2. Load of bridge structures – traffic load of road and railway bridges, climatic loading. Fatigue of steel bridge structures. 3. Superstructure and deck of railway bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing. 4. Superstructure and deck of road bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing. 5. Open decks – static behaviour principles, design rules of deck members. 6. Plate steel decks (orthotropic decks) – static design principles, shear lag of wide chord. 7. Beam bridges with web-plate main girders – static design principles, buckling of slender webs. 8. Composite steel-concrete beam bridges – basic principles of the behaviour, design rules. 9. Beam grids – basic rules of the structural design, static design principles. 10. Beam bridges with truss main girders – structural design rules, static design principles. 11. Bracings of bridge structures – types, function, loading, static design. Bridge accessories and attachment.

1. Structural composition of railway bridge with classic bridge deck or rail-bed bridge deck (according to the individual task). 2. Load of railway bridge. 3.–4. Detail static solution of deck members – stringers of classic bridge deck or longitudinal stiffnesses of rail-bed bridge deck: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections. 5.–6. Detail static solution of deck members – transverse girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections. 7. Preliminary static design of main girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-section. 8.–9. Static design of bracings. 10.–11. Structural detailing of members and details of bridge deck and main girders: drawing documentation.