Course detail
Members of Metal Structures
FAST-BOA002Acad. year: 2025/2026
Basics of metal bearing structure design and realization problems. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, situation and prospects in the branch.
Material and selection of structural members.
Principles and rules of reliability approach in steel structures, allowable and ultimate limit state design methods. Probabilistic approach in steel structures.
Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed cross-sections of thin-walled steel members.
Connections of metal structures – principles of structural design (bolted, frictional and welded connections).
Tensile members. Bending – elastic and plastic action.
Simple and warping torsion of thin-walled open and closed cross-section members.
Stability and buckling resistance of compression members of solid and composed section.
Lateral buckling.
Members subject to tension and bending, compression and bending stress.
Global and local stability problems. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled members.
Repeated load resistance of steel structures. Factors affecting steel fatigue strength.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Aims
Student will learn and get under control the aims of matter in
teachings, focused to problems of elements of metal structures, in term of content amplificated more in detail in the schedule of related training subject.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
ESDEP - European Steel Design Education Programme, SCI, London, CD ROM. (EN)
Faltus, F. Prvky ocelových konstrukcí, ČSAV Praha, 1962, 695 s. (CS)
Ferjenčík, P., Schun, J., Melcher, J., Voříšek, V., Chladný, E. Navrhovanie oceľových konsštrukcií, 1. časť, ALFA Praha / SNTL Bratislava, 1986, 616 s. (SK)
Pilgr, M. Kovové konstrukce. Podklady pro navrhování prvků ocelových konstrukcí, CERM Brno, 2018, 700 s. (CS)
Voříšek, V., Chladný, E. Melcher, J. Prvky kovových konstrukcí, ALFA Bratislava / SNTL Praha, 1983, 544 s. (SK)
Recommended reading
Bujňák, J., Vičan, J. Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií, ŽA v Žiline, 2012, 191 s. ISBN 978-80-554-0529-2. (SK)
Melcher, J., Bajer, M., Karmazínová, M., Sýkora, K. Prvky kovových konstrukcí, studijní opory, FAST VUT, 2008. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPA-SI Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's
specialization VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BPC-MI Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BKC-SI Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Advantages and disadvantages of steel structures, situation and perspective of branch development.
- 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements.
- 3. Principles and rules of steel structures reliability, method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach.
- 4. Geometric and static characteristics of ope nand closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members.
- 5. Bolted joints and frictional joints.
- 6. Fillet welds.Butt welds, plug welds, slott welds.
- 7. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action.
- 8. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section.
- 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact and built-up section.
- 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending.
- 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression.
- 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections. Critical and post-critical load-bearing capacity of a plain girders with thin walls. Resistance of steel structures to the action of repeated load. Factors which influence pulsating fatigue limit of steel structures.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to problems of the design and realization of steel load-bearing structures. Loading of building structures.
- 2. Materials and assortment of structural elements.Method of allowable stress and limit state design method. Design of steel structures with use of probability approach.
- 3. Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed thin-walled cross-sections of steel structures members.
- 4. Bolted joints and frictional joints.
- 5. Fillet welds. Butt welds, plug welds, slot welds.
- 6. Tension members. Bending of beams - elastic and elastically-plastic action.
- 7. Saint-Vénant torsion and mixed torsion of thin-walled members with open and closed cross-section.
- 8. Buckling resistance of compression members with compact section.
- 9. Buckling resistance of compression members with built-up section.
- 10. Lateral-torsional buckling of girders in bending.
- 11. Members in bending and tension, and under bending and compression.
- 12. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled cross-sections.