Course detail

Metal and Timber Structures

FAST-BO07Acad. year: 2009/2010

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 the economical point of view with respect to the physical and moral lifespan and material return.
Material properties of steel and timber.
Structural design of bearing systems.
Economical aspects of metal and timber structures.
Metal structures in industrial buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel frameworks.
Steel bridges.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures (KDK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students have to manage the aim of the subject. They obtain more detailed knowledge about the problems of design metal and timber structures.

Prerequisites

Members of Metal Structures.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Metal structures of industrial buildings (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel buildings (girders, crane way, columns, footer and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, loads, parts of steel structures and connections, security of the space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembling of bridges).
5. Metal structures used in hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, lock chamber gates).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of technical 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 design of timber structures).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10.Joints in timber structures.
11.Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12.Truss timber structures.
13.Spatial 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 acquired 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)
Kuklík, P. a kol.: Dřevěné konstrukce 10. ČVUT Praha, 2005. (CS)
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)
Studnička, J.: Ocelové konstrukce I. ČVUT Praha, 1996. (CS)
Sýkora, K.: Kovové a dřevěné konstrukce. PC - DIR Brno, 1993. (CS)

Recommended reading

Blass,H.J. a kol.: Timber Engineering – STEP 1. Centrum Hout, The Netherlands, 1995. (EN)
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme. U.K., 2000. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer