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Water-service concrete structures
FAST-BL04Acad. year: 2016/2017
Types of concrete members and structures of water-service buildings.
Monolithic framed structures. Supporting framed structures of storage tanks for liquids and water towers.
Two-ways slabs – edge and locally supported (flat-slab floor, lifted slabs). Two-way ribbed and cassette plates. Circular plates.
Foundation structures – footings, continuous footings, grid and mat foundations, deep foundations.
Simple and continuous wall beams. Walls with/without stiffening elements. Retaining walls.
Storage structures (bunkers and silos). Storage tanks for liquids, water towers, channels and ducts. Shells, domes and arches
Application of precast structures.
Basic theory of prestressed concrete. Principles of masonry structure design.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
• Knowledge of the principles of static solution of concrete structures and constructions.
• Virtue for designing principal types of structures of building construction and civil engineering together with the ability of preparing relevant technical drawings.
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Course curriculum
2. Monolithic frame structures, supporting frame structures of tanks and water reservoirs (nodes, redistribution, strain).
3. Foundation structures – footings, continuous footings, grids.
4. Foundation structures – slabs, deep foundations.
5. Two-way slabs – edge supported.
6. Two-way slabs locally supported (flat-slabs, slabs with enlarged column head, lifted slabs). Circular plates.
7. Simple and continuous wall beams. Walls with/without stiffening elements. Retaining walls.
8. Principles of design and reinforcing of storage structures (bunkers and silos). Rectangular and rotary symmetric tanks and water reservoirs.
9. Problems of water-service structures cracking.
10. Water-service structures – troughs, weirs.
11. Water-service structures – channels and ducts.
12. Design and application of shells, domes and arches.
13. Principles of design and application of precast structures. Basic theory of prestressed concrete. Principles of masonry structures design.
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Aims
To gain ability for design of the principal types of structures of building construction and civil engineering together with preparing relevant technical drawings.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
McCORMAC, Jack C. a BROWN, Russell H.: Design of Reinforced Concrete. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-27927-4. (EN)
NILSON, Artur, DARWIN, David. a DOLAN, Charles: Design of Concrete Structures. New York: McGraf-Hill, 2009. ISBN 978-0073293493. (EN)
Recommended reading
ŠTĚPÁNEK, Petr a ZMEK, Bohuslav: Prvky betonových konstrukcí. Modul CM4 (část studijní opory v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2005. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a BAŽANT, Zdeněk: Plošné betonové konstrukce, nádrže a zásobníky. Brno: VUTIUM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7204-693-5. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a KOLÁČEK, Jan: Vodohospodářské betonové konstrukce. Modul CW3 a CW4 (studijní opora v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2012. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš a kolektiv: Příklady posouzení betonových prvků dle Eurokódů. Praha: Verlag Dashöfer, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86897-38-7. (CS)
ZICH, Miloš, KLUSÁČEK, Ladislav, SEČKÁŘ, Milan a LANÍKOVÁ, Ivana: Vodohospodářské betonové konstrukce. Modul CW1 a CW2 (studijní opora v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2005. (CS)
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