Course detail

Metal and Timber Structures in Water Engineering

FAST-BO53Acad. year: 2013/2014

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 technical and economical point of view with respect to physical and moral lifespan and material return.
Material properties of steel and timber material.
Structural design of a bearing system.
Metal structures of industrial buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel framework.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures (KDK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students acquire the needed information and knowledge of materials for steel and timber structures in water engineering.
Students acquire knowledge required for design of timber structures, including practical exercises on examples.
Students acquire the necessary knowledge to design of joints and connections, including practical exercises on examples.
Students acquire knowledge of compositions of structures in water engineering from steel and timber material.
Students acquire practical knowledge skills for design of structural elements from steel and timber material and their details.

Prerequisites

Mathematics, structural mechanics, elasticity, design of elements of structures - basis, actions on structures.

Co-requisites

Problems of standards for design of structures, structures in water engineering.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Interpretation, individual practice of problems (individual numerical examples) consultations. Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Attendance at seminars, development of individual examples and passing the exam test are the evaluation criteria for students.

Course curriculum

1. Metal structures of industrial building (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel building (girders, construction of the crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel structure (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembly of bridges).
5. Metal structures of the hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, gates of lock chambers).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of the technological 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 their design).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Joints in the timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Space structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Sýkora,K.: Kovové a dřevěné konstrukce. PC - DIR Brno, 1993. (CS)
Timber Engineering – STEP 1. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Timber Engineering – STEP 2. Centrm Hout, 1995. (EN)
Straka,B.: Navrhování dřevěných konstrukcí. CERM Brno, 1996. (CS)
Salmon, C.G., Johnson, J.E.: Steel Structures: Design and Behavior. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1997. (EN)
Balio, G., Mazzolani, F.M.: Design of Steel Structures. E&FN Spon, 1999. (EN)

Recommended reading

SCI-The Steel Construction Institute: ESDEP-European Steel Design Education Programme. U.K., 2000. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch V , 4. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Metal structures of industrial building (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel building (girders, construction of the crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel structure (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of the bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembly of bridges).
5. Metal structures of the hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of the shutters, gates of lock chambers).
6. Special metal structures (tanks, stacks, silos, high diameter pipelines, towers and masts, structures of the technological 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 their design).
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Joints in the timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Space structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Design of disposition arrangement of industrial single storey buildings, arrangement of roof structures.
2. Design of a roof purlin.
3. Design of a truss girder - geometry, statical solution.
4. Desion of members of a truss girder.
5. Design of roof bracings.
6. Design of connections of members of steel structures.
7. Design of members in tension.
8. Design of solid members under compression.
9. Design of built-up members.
10. Design of bending beams.
11. Stability of bending beams.
12. Design of beams made from glued laminated timber.
13. Individual consultations.