26 hod., optionally

1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, situation and perspective of branch development. 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements. 3. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach. 4. Geometric and static characteristics of ope nand closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members. 5. Bolted joints and frictional joints. 6. Fillet welds.Butt welds, plug welds, slott welds. 7. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action. 8. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section. 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact and built-up section. 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending. 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression. 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections. Critical and post-critical load-bearing capacity of a plain girders with thin walls. Resistance of steel structures to the action of repeated load. Factors which influence pulsating fatigue limit of steel structures.