Course detail
Metal and Timber Structures in Water Engineering
FAST-BO53Acad. year: 2016/2017
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 technical and economical point of view with respect to physical and moral lifespan and material return.
Material properties of steel and timber material.
Structural design of a bearing system.
Metal structures of industrial buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel framework.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
teachings, focused to problems of elements of metal and timber structures and also to design of metal and timber building and water engineering structures, in term of content amplificated more in detail in the schedule of related training subject.
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Course curriculum
2. Industrial steel building (girders, construction of the crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel structure (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembly of bridges).
5. Metal structures of the hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, gates of lock chambers).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of the technological 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 their design).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Joints in the timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Space structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
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)
Sýkora,K.: Kovové a dřevěné konstrukce. PC - DIR Brno, 1993. (CS)
Timber Engineering – STEP 1. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
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