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Failures and Reconstruction
FAST-BH55Acad. year: 2009/2010
Buildings need regular maintenance, rehabilitations and sometimes even reconstruction or renovation. The design and realization of a building reconstruction require from civil engineers professional solution of specific technical problems. For reconstruction it is necessary to carry out the technical and achitectural-historical survey of existing state in considered buildings, identification of defects and failures of building constructions and recommendation of methods of their rehabilitation. The subject deals with the creation of the drawing documentation of reconstructed buildings from foundations to roofs. Students will learn about the development of building industry laws in Bohemia and Moravia and about building construction systems and principles influenced by previous standards and design regulations.
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2)Surveying of existing state in buildings
3)Fundamental surveys in buildings – technical survey, historical and architectural survey (preliminary consideration of building defects and deficiencies – visual exploration), Development of building industry law in Bohemia and Moravia since the second half of the 19th century
4)Design regulations for the project documentation of building reconstruction and renovation
5)Cracks in building constructions – characteristics of cracks (active and passive crack defects, tension, compression or shear cracks , etc.) causes of cracks in building constructions and ways their rehabilitation
6)Defects of vertical structures (columns, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions) and their rehabilitations
7)Openings in vertical structures, supports and bracing for rehabilitation processes
8)Defects of horizontal constructions - the first part (lintels, girders, floor structures, wooden beam floor structures) and ways of their rehabilitation
9)Defects of horizontal constructions - the second part (vaults, floor constructions) – types, defects, rehabilitation
10)Staircases – main defects and failures, repair possibilities
11)Foundation structures – failures, ways of rehabilitation, enlargement of width and depth of existing foundations
12)Defects and failures of saddle roofs – causes, rehabilitation, attic extensions and superstructures
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Basic literature
Montague, Peter and Taylor, Roy: Structural Engineering. McGraw Hill Book Company, London, 1989. (EN)
Vlček a kol.: Poruchy a rekonstrukce v pozemních stavbách II. CERM, 1996. (CS)
Vlček a kol.: Projektování rekonstrukcí. CERM, 1996. (CS)
Recommended reading
Vlče,.M., Beneš,P.: zateplování budov. CERM, 2000. (CS)
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