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Metal and Timber Structures
FAST-BO07Acad. year: 2009/2010
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 the economical point of view with respect to the physical and moral lifespan and material return.
Material properties of steel and timber.
Structural design of bearing systems.
Economical aspects of metal and timber structures.
Metal structures in industrial buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel frameworks.
Steel bridges.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.
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2. Industrial steel buildings (girders, crane way, columns, footer and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, loads, parts of steel structures and connections, security of the space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembling of bridges).
5. Metal structures used in hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, lock chamber gates).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of technical 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 design of timber structures).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10.Joints in timber structures.
11.Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12.Truss timber structures.
13.Spatial structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.
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Basic literature
Kuklík, P. a kol.: Dřevěné konstrukce 10. ČVUT Praha, 2005. (CS)
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)
Studnička, J.: Ocelové konstrukce I. ČVUT Praha, 1996. (CS)
Sýkora, K.: Kovové a dřevěné konstrukce. PC - DIR Brno, 1993. (CS)
Recommended reading
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme. U.K., 2000. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
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