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Selected Topics of Design and Realization of Metal and Timber Structures
FAST-BO55Acad. year: 2009/2010
The course is drawn up as the subsidiary to elaboration of bachelor’s project. Valid standards for design and verification of steel and timber structures.
Basic types of steel structures, members and components.
Connections of members and components of steel structures.
Basic types of timber structures, members and components.
Connections of members and components of timber structures.
Project documentation – statical analysis, drawings.
Basic of steel and timber structural computing automation.
Specific problems solution within bachelor’s project.
Examples of structures realized.
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2. Members and parts of steel and timber structures, disposition.
3. Basic types of the supporting steel structures of the civil buildings and industrial halls.
4. Basic types of the timber structures.
5. Manufacturing and assembling connection of the steel structures.
6. Connections of members and parts of the timber structures.
7. Project documentation, types, technical report, static design.
8. Project drawings
9. Manufacturing drawings, specification of the material.
10. Bases of the automatization of the design of steel and timber structures.
11. Manufacturing and assembly of the steel and timber structures.
12. Solution of the particular problems within the bachelor’s project.
13. Project documentation of the bachelor’s project, examples of the realized steel and timber structures.
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Basic literature
Brown, C.J., Nielsen, J.: Silos – fundamentals of theory, behaviour and design. E&FN Spon, 1998. (EN)
Dutko, P. a kol.: Drevené konštrukcie. ALFA, Bratislava, 1976. (SK)
Ferjenčík, P., Melcher, J. a kol.: Navrhovanie oceľových konštrukcií. ALFA, Bratislava, 1986. (SK)
Timber Engineering – STEP 1. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Recommended reading
SCI-The Steel Construction Institute: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme. U.K., 2000. (EN)
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