Course detail

Metal and Timber Structures in Water Engineering

FAST-BO53Acad. year: 2015/2016

History and importance of engineering structures in civil engineering.
Basic types of steel and timber engineering structures.
Advantages and disadvantages of metal and timber structures from technical and economical point of view with respect to physical and moral lifespan and material return.
Material properties of steel and timber material.
Structural design of a bearing system.
Metal structures of industrial buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel framework.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures (KDK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will learn and get under control the aims of matter in
teachings, focused to problems of elements of metal and timber structures and also to design of metal and timber building and water engineering structures, in term of content amplificated more in detail in the schedule of related training subject.

Prerequisites

Mathematics, structural mechanics, elasticity, design of elements of structures - basis, actions on structures.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Metal structures of industrial building (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel building (girders, construction of the crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel structure (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembly of bridges).
5. Metal structures of the hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, gates of lock chambers).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of the technological equipment).
7. Properties of the wood and wood-based materials, basic design parameters, requirement of the structure condition).
8. Ultimate states of the timber structure, principles of their design).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Joints in the timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Space structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

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

Balio, G., Mazzolani, F.M.: Design of Steel Structures. E&FN Spon, 1999. (EN)
Salmon, C.G., Johnson, J.E.: Steel Structures: Design and Behavior. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1997. (EN)
Straka,B.: Navrhování dřevěných konstrukcí. CERM Brno, 1996. (CS)
Sýkora,K.: Kovové a dřevěné konstrukce. PC - DIR Brno, 1993. (CS)
Timber Engineering – STEP 1. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)

Recommended reading

SCI-The Steel Construction Institute: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme. U.K., 2000. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer