221-0022 – Steel Bridges (OKM)

After completing this subject, students will be able to understand and apply the following skills and topic areas: - design and a assessment of steel bridges; - design and assessment of composite steel and concrete bridges; - design and assessment of steel footbridges.

1. Actions on bridges, terminology, design principles.) 2. Spatial arrangement of bridges, dispositional arrangement. 3. Pavement of bridges, bridge deck, bridge accessories and attachments, bridge bearings, bridge fasteners. 4. Fatigue of steel bridges. 5. Plate steel girder bridges. 6. Composite steel and concrete girder bridges. 7. Truss steel girder bridges. 8. Spatial interaction of steel bridge members. 9. Beam grillages, skew bridges. 10. Curved bridges. Frame bridges. 11. Arched bridges. 12. Cable-stayed bridges. 13. Suspension bridges. 14. Fabrication and erection of bridge structures, examples of existing bridges.

1. Sanpaolesi, L., Croce, P.: Design of bridges, Handbook 4, Leonardo da Vinci pilot project CZ/02/B/F/PP-134007, Pisa, 2005.

1. Pechal, A.: Bridges. Ing. Antonín Pechal, CSc. Publishing, Brno, Czech Republic, 2009, ISBN 978-80-254-5279-0. 2. Troyano L.F.: Bridge Engineering a Global Perspektive. University Press, Cambridge, 2003. 3. Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan: Bridge Engeneering Handbook, CRC Press, 1999. 4. EN 1993-1-1: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings 2005. 5. EN 1990: Eurocode: Basis of structural design, 2002. 6. EN 1991: Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 2: Traffic loads on bridges, 2003. 7. EN 1993-2: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 2: Design of bridges.