Course detail

Design of concrete structures

FAST-BL54Acad. year: 2011/2012

Scale and subject of concrete structure design (input data, codes, documentation).
Details and specific cases in dimensioning and design of structural and engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
Modelling load-bearing structures on computer.
Software for dimensioning, drawings of shapes and reinforcement and for solution of load-bearing structures. Practical application.
Training programme data for solution of selected problems.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures (BZK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge about details and special cases in dimensioning and design of concrete load-bearing structures.
• Virtue to utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
• Virtue for desinging individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.

Prerequisites

stresses, software for structural design of structures, structural models, design of concrete and masonry structures, prestressed concrete

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. Scale and subject of concrete structure design - input data, essential actual codes, regulations.
2. Scale and subject of concrete structure design – project documentation (types, technical report, static calculation, drawings).
3. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
4. Details and specific cases in dimensioning of masonry, reinforced concrete and prestressed members.
5. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
6. Details and specific cases in design of structural and civil engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures.
7. Software for dimensioning and drawings of profile and reinforcement and for load-bearing structures design.
8. Modelling of the civil and structural engineering load-bearing structures and elementary bridge structures on computer.
9.– 13. Design of selected reinforced and prestressed structural member.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To gain knowledge about details and special cases in dimensioning and design of load-bearing concrete structures.
Utilise computing systems for concrete structures design.
Desing of individual structural reinforced concrete or prestressed member.

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

COLLINS, Michael P. a MITCHELL, Denis: Prestressed Concrete Structures. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1991. ISBN 0-13-691635-X. (EN)
MAJDÚCH, Dušan: Zásady vystužovania betónových konštrukcií. Bratislava: ALFA, 1984. (SK)
MENN, Christian: Prestressed Concrete Bridges. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1991. ISBN 0817624147. (EN)
NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles: Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (EN)

Recommended reading

BALÁZS, György L. (Ed.) et al.: Structural Concrete: Textbook on behaviour, design and performance. 2nd. ed.. Lausanne: International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), 2009. ISBN 978-2-88394-091-81. (EN)
BAŽANT, Zdeněk a ŠMIŘÁK, Svatopluk: Betonové konstrukce III. Konstrukce plošné, nádrže a zásobníky. Brno: VUT, 2002. ISBN 8021420596. (CS)
ČÍRTEK, Ladislav: Betonové konstrukce II. Konstrukce prutové a základové. Brno: VUT, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1543-6. (CS)
NAVRÁTIL, Jaroslav: Předpjaté betonové konstrukce. Brno: CERM, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7204-561-7. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a BAŽANT, Zdeněk: Plošné betonové konstrukce, nádrže a zásobníky. Brno: CERM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-693-5. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer