Course Details

Simulation of Metal and Timber Structures Behaviour

Academic Year 2025/26

NOB021 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Martin Vild, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295796

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Relation between real structure and calculation model.
  • 2. External boundary conditions – anchorage.
  • 3. Internal boundary conditions – connections of members.
  • 4. Semi-rigid connections.
  • 5. Calculation model – trusses.
  • 6. Calculation model – planar structures.
  • 7.–8. Steel as a structural material.
  • 9. Timber as a structural material.
  • 10. Trusses and planar structures.
  • 11. Spatial structures.
  • 12. Linear and non-linear evaluation.
  • 13. Structure stability, results interpretation.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Relation between real structure and calculation model.
  • 3.–5. Calculation model – trusses.
  • 6.–8. Calculation model – planar structures.
  • 9.–10. Steel as a structural material.
  • 11. Timber as a structural material.
  • 12. Linear and non-linear evaluation.
  • 13. Structure stability, results interpretation.