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Engineering and Transport Structures
FAST-BO01Acad. year: 2009/2010
History, progress and importance of engineering structures in civil engineering
Basic types of building structures and engineering structures and their general characteristics.
Building materials – material properties with aspect of usage in building construction, principal material characteristics.
Load of building structure, load classification, particular kinds of loading actions and their combinations.
Concrete and masonry structures, metal and timber structures – basic types, dispositional and structural design, significant structural details.
Rules of computer modelling of engineering structures.
Concrete and steel bridges, timber over-crossings, masonry bridges and vaults, overview of usable types.
Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages.
Transportation terminology, basic concepts, development policy of transport in CR with respect to EU.
Transport infrastructure, attachment to EU.
Development of world railways, history and railway system characteristics in CR, urban infrastructure and airports, integrated transport systems.
Design of linear structures. Data preparation for computerisation, computer-aided design of linear structures.
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2. Building materials.
3. Basic types of concrete, walled, steel and timber structures.
4. Loading of building structure, load classification, particular kinds of loading actions and their combinations.
5. Rules of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
6. Rules of structural design of constructions.
7. Concrete and steel bridges, timber over-crossings.
8. Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages.
9. Transportation terminology, basic concepts, development policy of transport in CR with respect to EU. Transport infrastructure, attachment to EU.
10. Development of the world railway system. Progression and characteristics of Czech railway system, ČD organization structure. Basic subdivide of railway structures.
11. Development of world railways, history and railway system characteristics in CR, urban infrastructure and airports, integrated transport systems.
12. Structural and geometrical arrangement of rail tracks, optional position, technicals, basic terms.
13. Design of highways – technicals, basic terms. Data preparation for computerisation, computer-aided design of linear structures.
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Basic literature
Kotas, P.: Dopravní systémy a stavby. Vydavatelství ČVUT v Praze, 2002. (CS)
Nilson, A. H., Darwin, D., Dolan, C. W.: Design of Concrete Structures. McGraf-Hill, New York, 2004. (EN)
Salmon, C.G., Johnson, J.E.: Steel Structures: Design and Behavior. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1997. (EN)
Recommended reading
Chochol, Lehovec a kol.: Cesty a dialnice-Projektovanie. ALFA Bratislava, 1989. (SK)
Tyc, Kubát, Dostál, Havíř: Železniční stavby. Dh-Press Bratislava, 1993. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory