Course detail
Load-bearing structures I.
FAST-AL01Acad. year: 2014/2015
Types of load-bearing structures. The principles and rules of design. Stress and its effect. Properties of the material for concrete structures.
The principles of design of reinforced concrete members stressed by the bending moment, normal, force, shearing force and by torsion.
Essential types of the members - slabs, frames, girders, lintels. Stairs.
The priciples of design of the members from plain concrete.
Introduction to the problems of design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, the state and prospects of the specialisation.
Material and assortment of structural members.
The principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of limit states. Probabilistic methods of the steel structures design.
Joints of the steel structures - the principles of design and structural solution (screwed, friction and welded joints).
Tension frames. Bend of beams. Stability and buckling load-bearing capacity of compressed frames both of compact and composite section. Beams tilting. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- basic view of the most common structural systems within reinforcement and steel load-bearing structures,
- rudimentary knowledge within the frame of design principles, reliability of civil engineering structures and load of the structures,
- basic piece of knowledge within the scope of civil engineering structures behaviour in terms of ULS (ultimate limit state), members loaded by bending moment, shearing force and combination of bending and compression.
- carrying out of simple drawings (shape and reinforcement drawing),
- the principles and rules of steel structures design – ultimate limit state, material properties,
- joints of the steel structures - the principles and rules of the design,
- tension and bend of beams, simple and buckling compression.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses.
3. Properties of materials (concrete, steel) for concrete structures (strength, stress-strain diagram). Concrete structures sorting. Principles of design by the limit states.
4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress.
5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment.
6. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels.
7. Reinforced concrete structures of stairs. Plain concrete – direct and bending stress, shearing stress.
8. State and perspective of civil engineering development, introduction into the problems of design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures.
9. 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 tension members of massive, jointed and compound sections.
13. Tilting of beams. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.
Work placements
Aims
To design steel members and their joints.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David a DOLAN, Charles: Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (EN)
STUDNIČKA, Jiří: Ocelové konstrukce. Praha: ČVUT, 2011. ISBN 978-80-01-04800-9. (CS)
Recommended reading
PROCHÁZKA, Jaroslav, KOHOUTKOVÁ, Alena a VAŠKOVÁ, Jitka: Příklady navrhování betonových konstrukcí 1. Praha: ČVUT, 2007. ISBN 978-80-01-03675-4. (CS)
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)
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute, Ascot, U.K.: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme, CD ROM. ESDEP Society, 2000. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Stress and its effects on load-bearing structures, combination of stresses.
3. Properties of materials (concrete, steel) for concrete structures (strength, stress-strain diagram). Concrete structures sorting. Principles of design by the limit states.
4. Ultimate strength – direct and bending stress.
5. Ultimate strength – shearing stress, torsion moment.
6. Member of concrete structures- slabs, beams, girders, lintels.
7. Reinforced concrete structures of stairs. Plain concrete – direct and bending stress, shearing stress.
8. State and perspective of civil engineering development, introduction into the problems of design and realisation of steel load-bearing structures.
9. 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 tension members of massive, jointed and compound sections.
13. Tilting of beams. Load-bearing capacity of slender walls.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
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.