Course detail
Concrete structures III
FAST-BL53Acad. year: 2013/2014
Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation.
Shallow foundations – detailing design of wall footings, grid and mat foundations, slabs. Footings of precast structures. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations.
Deep foundations – piles, group of piles, footings above piles. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls. Drop caissons and caissons.
Foundations dynamically loaded.
Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions.
Selected structures of engineering constructions - storage structures (bunkers and silos), storage tanks for liquids, water towers, channels and ducts.
Design of constructions and foundations in the undermining areas.
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Course curriculum
2. Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Comprehensive and simplified interactive system. Modelling of subsoil and foundation structures. Software Soilin.
3. Shallow foundations. Distribution of contact stress in footing bottom. Detail design of footings from plain and reinforced concrete. Detail design of uniformly pressed continuous footing.
4. Shallow foundations. Detail design of grid and mat foundations, slabs.
5. Shallow foundations. Footings of precast structures (pocket foundation) – detail design. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations.
6. Deep foundations. Limit states of subsoil and pile. Pile foundations, group of piles, footings above piles.
7. Deep foundations. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls.
8. Foundations dynamically loaded. Response of machines on dynamic load action.
9. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Foundation structures at reconstructions.
10. Design of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Structural arrangement, pressure of fillers, principles of solution. Dimensioning and reinforcing of individual member of storage tanks.
11. Design of rectangular and rotary symmetric reservoirs. Water reservoirs.
12. Design of channels and ducts.
13. Principles of structures and foundations design in the undermining areas.
Work placements
Aims
Design of foundations in conventional and special conditions.
Design of selected structures of engineering structures, containers, tanks, pipelines.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
BAŽANT, Zdeněk: Methods of Foundation Engineering. Praha: Academia, 1979. (EN)
BOWLES, Joseph. E.: Foundation Analysis and Design. McGraw-Hill, 1996. ISBN 978-0-07-118844-9. (EN)
LEONHARDT, Fritz a MÖNNIG, Eduard: Vorlesungen über Massivbau. Teil 1 Grundlagen zur Bemessung im Stahlbetonbau. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984. ISBN: 978-3-540-12786-4. (DE)
NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles: Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (EN)
Recommended reading
ČÍRTEK, Ladislav: Betonové konstrukce II. Konstrukce prutové a základové. Brno: VUT, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1543-6. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a BAŽANT, Zdeněk.: Plošné betonové konstrukce, nádrže a zásobníky. Brno: CERM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-693-5. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a kolektiv: Příklady posouzení betonových prvků dle Eurokódů. Praha: Verlag Dashöfer, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86897-38-7. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš: Vybrané stati z nosných konstrukcí budov. Modul M01 a M02 (část studijní opory v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2006. (CS)
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Lecture
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Syllabus
2. Interactive models of system: subsoil – foundation – structure above foundation. Comprehensive and simplified interactive system. Modelling of subsoil and foundation structures. Software Soilin.
3. Shallow foundations. Distribution of contact stress in footing bottom. Detail design of footings from plain and reinforced concrete. Detail design of uniformly pressed continuous footing.
4. Shallow foundations. Detail design of grid and mat foundations, slabs.
5. Shallow foundations. Footings of precast structures (pocket foundation) – detail design. Toroidal and shell foundations. Box and massive blocks foundations.
6. Deep foundations. Limit states of subsoil and pile. Pile foundations, group of piles, footings above piles.
7. Deep foundations. Anchored and non-anchored underground concrete walls.
8. Foundations dynamically loaded. Response of machines on dynamic load action.
9. Foundations in the clearances and in the special conditions. Foundation structures at reconstructions.
10. Design of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Structural arrangement, pressure of fillers, principles of solution. Dimensioning and reinforcing of individual member of storage tanks.
11. Design of rectangular and rotary symmetric reservoirs. Water reservoirs.
12. Design of channels and ducts.
13. Principles of structures and foundations design in the undermining areas.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Footing – Geotechnical category II – ultimate limit states of foundation base.
3. Footing – Geotechnical category II – serviceability limit states (settlement).
4. Footing – ultimate limit states of bending moment and punching.
5. Continuous Footing – task, simplified methods.
6. Continuous Footing on elastic foundation.
7. Raft foundations – task, load, simplified methods.
8. Raft foundations – Interactive model of system subsoil – foundation.
9. Raft foundations – Interactive model of system subsoil – foundation.
10. Pile foundations – task, design of cap for group of piles
11. Pile foundations – design of pile.
12. Final correction.
13. Project submission. Credit.