Course detail

Bachelor´s Seminary

FAST-BF52Acad. year: 2011/2012

Complex bachelor´s project. Design and realization of structures in complicated geotechnical conditions. The choice of optimum technological process. Special problems of bachelor´s seminary project solution. Build and work stages, identification of factors effecting structure-media interaction. Conception of solving, alternatives. Investigation of definitive state.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Geotechnics (GTN)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will master the aim of the object - safe and economical design of building foundations at difficult geotechnical conditions, choice of optimum technological process.

Prerequisites

Types of foundation soils, properties of soils, limit states theory, basic principles of structural mechanics, theory of strength and elasticity, structure design.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction. Complex Bachelor project.
2. Literature, codes.
3. The design and realization of structures
4. The choice of optimum technological process
5. Build and work steges
6. Special problems of Bachelor seminary
7. Conception of solving, alternatives
8. Input geotechnical data.
9. Check of definitive state.
10.Computation model.
11.Calculation.
12.Calculation.
13.Conclusions - report of the seminary work.


Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To teach the students safe and economical design of building foundations at difficult geotechnical conditions, choice of optimum technological process.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

KLEPSATEL, František a kol.: Výstavba tunelů ve skalních horninách. Bratislava: JAGA MEDIA s.r.o., 2003. ISBN: 80-88905-43-5. (CS)
MASOPUST, Jan: Speciální zakládání - 1. díl. Brno: AN CERM, s.r.o., 2004. ISBN 80-214-2770-1. (CS)
MASOPUST, Jan: Speciální zakládání - 2. díl. Brno: AN CERM, s.r.o., 2006. ISBN 80-7204-489-3. (CS)
ZÁRUBA, Quido, MENCL, Václav: Sesuvy a zabezpečování svahů. Praha: Academia, 1987. (CS)

Recommended reading

ATKINSON, John: The Mechanics of Soils and Foundations. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-36256-6. (EN)
BOWLES, Joseph, E.: Foundation Analysis and Design. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-07-114052-2. (EN)
BUDHU, Muni: Soil Mechanics and Foundations. USA: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-43117-6. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch K , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch K , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch K , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer