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Engineering and Transport Structures
FAST-BOA001Acad. year: 2022/2023
History, progress and importance of engineering structures in civil engineering
Basic types of building and engineering structures and their general characteristics.
Building materials – material properties from the viewpoint of usage in building structures, basic material characteristics.
Load of building structure, load classification, particular load cases and their combinations.
Concrete and masonry structures, metal and timber structures – basic types, dispositional and structural design, significant structural details.
Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
Concrete and steel bridges and timber footbridges, masonry bridges and vaults: overview of types.
Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Integrated transport systems. Transportation terminology and basic concepts.
Railway transport charakteristic, basic concepts, alignment and profile of the line, permanent way and subgrade. Railway station.
Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR, design of road structures, technologies for road construction, urban infrastructure.
Airports.
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Fundamental knowledge of mathematics and geometry. General knowledge and orientation in maps.
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2. Materials for civil structures.
3. Basic types of concrete, masonry, steel and timber structures.
4. Loading of building structure, load classification, kinds of loading actions, load cases and their combinations.
5. Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
6. Basis of structural design of buildings.
7. Concrete, steel and timber bridges and footbridges.
8. Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Transportation terminology and basic concepts. Alignment and profile of the line.
9. Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR. Structural and geometrical arrangement of road structures.
10. Urban road.
11. Technologies for road construction. Road types.
12. Permanent way and subgrade.
13. Railway stations. Airports.
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Basic literature
Chochol, Lehovec a kol.: Cesty a dialnice-Projektovanie. ALFA Bratislava, 1989. (SK)
Karmazínová, M., Sýkora, K., Šmak, M. Konstrukce a dopravní stavby, modul "Konstrukce - základní typy konstrukcí, konstrukční řešení staveb, mosty", studijní opory, FAST VUT, 2006. (CS)
Puchrík, J., Janoštík, D. Konstrukce a dopravní stavby, modul "Dopravní stavby", studijní opory, FAST VUT, 2006. (CS)
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