Course detail

Load-Bearing Structures 1

FAST-AL001Acad. year: 2024/2025

Principles and rules of design. Stress and its effect. Properties of the material for concrete structures. Design of reinforced concrete members stressed by the bending moment, normal, force, shearing force and by torsion. Essential types of the members. Members from plain concrete.
Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures. Material and assortment of structural members. Principles and rules reliability, method of limit states. Joints of the steel structures. Tension frames. Bend of beams. Stability and buckling load-bearing capacity of compressed frames. Beams tilting. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ivana Laníková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures (BZK)

Entry knowledge

principles of structural mechanics and elasticity

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

To gain ability for design of reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with preparing relevant technical drawings.
To design steel members and their joints.
A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Virtue for designing reinforced concrete members and simple structures together with preparing relevant technical drawings.
• Virtue for designing steel members and their joints.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles. Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (EN)
PROCHÁZKA, Jaroslav, ŠTĚPÁNEK, Petr, KRÁTKÝ, Jiří, KOHOUTKOVÁ, Alena a VAŠKOVÁ, Jitka. Navrhování betonových konstrukcí 1. Prvky z prostého a železového betonu. Praha: ČBS Servis, 2009. ISBN 978-80-903807-5-2. (CS)
STUDNIČKA, Jiří. Ocelové konstrukce. Praha: ČVUT, 2011. ISBN 978-80-01-04800-9. (CS)

Recommended reading

ČÍRTEK, Ladislav. Betonové konstrukce II. Konstrukce prutové a základové. Brno: VUTIUM, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1543-6. (CS)
FERJENČÍK, Pavel et al. Navrhovanie ocelových konštrukcií, 1. časť, 2. časť. Bratislava: Alfa, 1986. (SK)
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute, Ascot, U.K. ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme, CD ROM. ESDEP Society, 2000. (EN)

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Ivana Laníková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Type of load-bearing structures, their characteristics and applicability. Principles and rules of design. 2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses. 3. Properties of materials for concrete structures. Concrete structures sorting. 4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress. 5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment. 6.-7. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels. Structures of stairs. Plain concrete. 8.-9. Design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Material and assortment of structural members. 10. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of the limit states. 11. Joints of steel structures – principles of design and structural solution. 12. Tension members. Bending of beams. Stability and buckling strength of compressed members of massive, jointed and compound sections. 13. Tilting of beams. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Ivana Laníková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.- 2. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete slab within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment. 3.- 4. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the bending moment. 5.- 6. Dimensioning of the reinforced concrete beam (slab and girder floor) within USL (ultimate limit state) – effect of the shearing force. 7.- 8. Structural requirement and reinforcement drawing of the designed members. 9.- 12. Basic strain types and dimensioning of the steel structure members – bending moment, simple compression, buckling compression. Basic joint types of the steel structure members. 13. Credit.