Course detail

Metal and Timber Structures

FAST-BO007Acad. year: 2018/2019

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 material.
Structural design of bearing systems.
Economical aspects of metal and timber structures.
Metal structures of industrial single-storey buildings.
Multi-storey buildings with steel frameworks.
Steel bridges.
Metal structures in water engineering.
Special metal structures.
Timber structures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

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.
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 from timber material.
Students acquire practical knowledge skills for design of structural elements from timber and timber-based materials 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.

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 buildings (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel buildings (roof girders, construction of crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of a bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembling of bridges).
5. Metal structures in hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of 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 (mechanical properties of timber material, basic design parameters, requirements of structure conditions).
8. Ultimate states of the timber structures, principles of their design.
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Connections in timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Spatial 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 acquired 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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI (N) Bachelor's

    branch N , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Metal structures of industrial buildings (disposition, configuration of structures, roof cladding, roof purlins).
2. Industrial steel buildings (roof girders, construction of crane track, columns, column foot and anchorage, space rigidity).
3. Multi-storey buildings with a steel framework (criteria of design, actions, parts of steel structures and their connections, space rigidity).
4. Metal bridges (parts of a bridge construction, bearings and shutters, mobile bridges, assembling of bridges).
5. Metal structures in hydraulic engineering (types of weir shutters, structure of 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 (mechanical properties of timber material, basic design parameters, requirements of structure conditions).
8. Ultimate states of the timber structures, principles of their design.
9. Basic types of stress of members and parts of timber structures.
10. Connections in timber structures.
11. Plate timber girders, frames and arches.
12. Truss timber structures.
13. Spatial structures – cupolas, domes, shells and gables.

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Design of members in tension.
2. Design of solid members under compression.
3. Design of built-up members.
4. Design of bending beams.
5. Stability of bending beams.
6. Design of beams made from glued laminated timber.