Course detail

Metal Bridges 1

FAST-BOA010Acad. year: 2025/2026

Basic concept and bridge terminology. Standards for structural design and construction of steel bridges.
Load of bridge structures. Basis of design of metal bridges. Bridge superstructure and deck – road and railway bridges.
Steel girder bridges – bridges with web-plate main girders, bridges with truss main girders.
Composite steel-concrete bridges – basic information.
Spatial rigidity and global stability of steel bridges. Bridge equipments and fittings.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures (KDK)

Entry knowledge

Structural mechanics: basic principles of static solution - simple supported and continuous girders, truss structures. Metal structures - design of members and connections of steel structures. Concrete structures - basic principles of design of concrete structures.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.
Student will learn the problems of the course and will get under controll the course aims, within the meaning of obtaining knowledge and skills in the field of design of basic structural systems of metal and steel-concrete bridges, concretized in the course schedule.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kvočák, V., Vičan, J. a kol. Navrhovanie oceľových mostov podľa európskych noriem, TU v Košiciach, 2013, 356 s. ISBN 978-80-553-1614-7. (SK)
Pechar, J., Bureš, J., Schindler, A. Kovové mosty, SNTL Praha, 1990, 528 s. ISBN 80-03-00523-X. (CS)
Schindler, A., Bureš, J., Pechar, J. Navrhování ocelových mostů, SNTL/ALFA Praha, 1980, 488 s. (CS)

Recommended reading

Aktuálně platné normativní dokumenty související s obsahem předmětu. (CS)
Manual of Bridge Engineering, edited by M.J. Ryall, G.A.R. Parke and J.E. Harding, Thomas Telford Ltd., London 2000, 1012 pp. ISBN 0 7277 2774 5. (EN)
Pechal, A. Mosty - Bridges, A. Pechal: Brno 2009, 270 s. ISBN 978-80-254-5279-0. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's

    specialization K , 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic concepts, bridge terminology, main parts of the bridge, standards for the design and realization of steel bridges. Reliability and limit states of steel bridge structures.
  • 2. Load of bridge structures – traffic load of road and railway bridges, climatic loading. Fatigue of steel bridge structures.
  • 3. Superstructure and deck of railway bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing.
  • 4. Superstructure and deck of road bridges – basic types, rules of structural design and detailing.
  • 5. Open decks – static behaviour principles, design rules of deck members.
  • 6. Plate steel decks (orthotropic decks) – static design principles, shear lag of wide chord.
  • 7. Beam bridges with web-plate main girders – static design principles, buckling of slender webs.
  • 8. Composite steel-concrete beam bridges – basic principles of the behaviour, design rules.
  • 9. Beam grids – basic rules of the structural design, static design principles.
  • 10. Beam bridges with truss main girders – structural design rules, static design principles.
  • 11. Bracings of bridge structures – types, function, loading, static design. Bridge accessories and attachment.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Marcela Karmazínová, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Structural composition of railway bridge with classic bridge deck or rail-bed bridge deck (according to the individual task).
  • 2. Load of railway bridge.
  • 3.–4. Detail static solution of deck members – stringers of classic bridge deck or longitudinal stiffnesses of rail-bed bridge deck: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections.
  • 5.–6. Detail static solution of deck members – transverse girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-sections.
  • 7. Preliminary static design of main girders: determination of internal forces, static design of cross-section.
  • 8.–9. Static design of bracings.
  • 10.–11. Structural detailing of members and details of bridge deck and main girders: drawing documentation.