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Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures (BZK)

A student gains these knowledge and skills:
• Knowledge of basic principles of design of bridges.
• Virtue for designing essential types of concrete slab and framed bridges.
• Knowledge and skill in designing bridge accessories.

design of road and bridges, design of concrete structures, prestressed concrete

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1. Introduction. History and development of bridge engineering. Basic definitions. Type of bridges. Essential parts of bridges and their characteristics. Spatial arrangement.
2. Loads. Materials for bridges construction and their properties. Specifications for design of bridges and load-bearing structures.
3. Superstructure of road and railway bridges. Insulation. Pavements and cornices.
4. Safety barriers. Closing devices. Drainage.
5. Steel, concrete, elastomer and combined bearings.
6. Substructure – abutments, wing walls and intermediate supports.
7. Waterproofing and wearing surface. Support threshold. Bridge transitions.
8. Stone, masonry and plain concrete bridges. Culverts – types, loading, dimensioning.
9. Slab bridges – structural arrangement, static action.
10. Vertical, skew and irregular slabs. Accurate and approximate methods of slab calculation. Expansion action.
11. Slabs from prestressed concrete assembled from precast members – reinforcement, prestressing, calculation methods.
12. Principles of general types of cast in place girder bridges design.
13. Principles of design of general types of girder bridges from precast members.

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To gain knowledge about basic principles of design of bridges.
To learn designing of essential types of concrete slab and framed bridges.
To gain knowledge and skill in designing of bridge accessories.

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

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JANDA, Lubor, KLEISNER, Zdeněk a ZVARA, Jozef: Betonové mosty. Praha: SNTL, 1988. (CS)
MENN, Christian: Prestressed Concrete Bridges. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1991. ISBN 0817624147. (EN)
RYALL, Michael. J., PARKE, Gerard A. R. a HARDING, John E. (ed.).: Manual of Bridge Engineering. London: Thomas Telford, 2000. ISBN 0-7277-2774-5. (EN)
BRŰHWILER, Eugen a MENN, Christian: Stahlbetonbrücken. Wien, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-211-83583-0. (DE)
HOLST, Karl, Heinz a HOLST, Ralph: Brücken aus Stahlbeton und Spannbeton. Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 2004. ISBN 3-433-02837-0. (DE)

MATHIVAT, Jacques: The Cantilever Construction of Prestressed Concrete Bridges. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983. ISBN 978-0471103431. (EN)
SEČKÁŘ, Milan: Betonové mosty. Vybrané statě. Brno: VUT, 1989. (CS)
SEČKÁŘ, Milan: Betonové mosty I. Brno: VUT, 1998. ISBN 80-214-1306-9. (CS)
HEWSON, Nigel R.: Prestressed Concrete Bridges: Design and Construction. London: Thomas Telford Publishing, 2003. ISBN 978-0727732231. (EN)
KUKAŇ, Vlastimil, ŠAFÁŘ, Roman a HRDOUŠEK, Vladislav: Betonové mosty 10. Praha: ČVUT, 2004. ISBN 80-01-02899-2. (CS)
HRDOUŠEK, Vladislav, KUKAŇ, Vlastimil a ŠAFÁŘ, Roman: Betonové mosty 10. Cvičení. Praha: ČVUT, 2004. ISBN 80-01-02853-4. (CS)
STRÁSKÝ, Jiří, KLUSÁČEK, Ladislav, PANÁČEK, Josef a NEČAS, Radim: Betonové mosty I. Modul CB1 až CB3 (studijní opora v elektronické podobě). Brno: VUT, 2006. (CS)
ŠAFÁŘ, Roman, KUKAŇ, Vlastimil, DRAHORÁD, Michal a FOGLAR, Marek: Betonové mosty 1. Přednášky. Praha: ČVUT, 2010. ISBN 978-80-01-04661-6. (CS)
HALVONIK, Jaroslav a BORZOVIĆ, Viktor: Betónové mosty I. Navrhovanie železobetónových mostov pozemných komunikácií podľa Eurokódov. Bratislava: STU, 2010. ISBN 978-80-227-3323-6. (SK)

26 hours, compulsory

1. Reinforced concrete bridge: Design and review of load-bearing structure of a slab bridge, design of bridge, space arrangement, embedding into terrain, superstructure, supporting and equipment. 2. Load (permanent and variable load – vertical moving load), calculation of internal forces using simplified method (method of interaction width), combination of internal forces. 3. Dimensioning for ultimate limit state – material, covering and reinforcement design, analysis of bend and shear, design of transverse reinforcement, anchorage of reinforcement. 4. Evaluation for serviceability limit state – stress and cracks limitation, displacement limitation. 5. Drawings of layout and arrangement of reinforcement. 6. Correction. 7. Bridge substructure: Design and checking of support – load-bearing capacity, stability, cantilever wig. 8. Bridge saet (bearing chair), breast wall. 9. Correction. 10. Structural members enabling expansion of load-bearing bridge structure. Calculation of expansions, design of members, adjustment of members for different temperatures. 11. Bridge from longitudinal prestressed segments. Design, load, transversal interaction of girders, internal forces, dimensioning and reinforcing principles. 12. Final correction. 13. Design submission. Credit.