221-0024 – Metal and timber structures II (KDK-2)
Gurantor department | Department of Structures |
Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Antonín Lokaj, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
After completing this subject, students will be able to understand and apply the following skills and topic areas:
- selected topic areas from metal structures (crane tracks, design of joints, fatigue and brittle fracture of steel structures, stainless steels, class 4 cross sections, steel members exposed to torsion, three-dimensional buckling of steel members);
- selected topic areas from timber structures (composite timber and concrete structures, timber bridges and footbridges, fatigue and brittle fracture of timber structures, strengthening of timber structures, defects and failures of timber structures).
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
1. Crane tracks – utilization in practice, loading, typology.
2. Crane trucks - design and assessment principles.
3. Fatigue and brittle fracture of steel structures.
4. Steel members exposed to torsion.
5. Design and assessment of joints, component method, hollow section joints.
6. Class 4 cross sections.
7. Three-dimensional buckling of steel members.
8. Stainless steel.
9. Fatigue and brittle failure. Oscillation of timber structures.
10. Composite timber and concrete structures.
11. Timber bridges and footbridges – spatial arrangement, loads, basic types, main carrying elements, equipment.
12. Timber bridges and footbridges – design principles in light of carrying capacity, serviceability and durability.
13. Special timber structures. Strengthening of timber structure elements.
14. Defects and failures of timber structures.
Compulsory literature:
1. EN 1993-1-1 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1: General rules and rules for buildings. CEN, Brussels.
2. EN 1993-1-8 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1: Design of joints. CEN, Brussels.
3. EN 1993-1-4 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 1-4: General rules - Supplementary rules for stainless steels. CEN, Brussels.
4. EN 1995-1-1 Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures – Part 1: Common rules and rules for buildings. CEN, Brussels.
Recommended literature:
1. Silva, L.S. et al.: Design of steel structures, 2010 ISBN (ECCS) 978-92-9147-098-3, ISBN (Ernst & Sohn) 978-3-433-02973-2.
2. www.access-steel.com
3. http://FAST10.VSB.CZ/TEMTIS/EN
Prerequisities
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.