228-0309 – Mechanics of structures (MK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Structural Mechanics |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Martin Krejsa, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course is focused on:
• introduction to the basic tasks of structural mechanics,
• static analysis of simple statically determinate and indeterminate beam structures,
• introduction to mathematical modeling of building structures,
• principles of designing and assessing the reliability of building structures according to current Eurocodes.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The course is intended for students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. It is aimed at acquainting with the problems of static calculations of building structures, their design and assessment according to current normative regulations and mathematical modeling using the usual software systems in practice.
Compulsory literature:
1. Steen Krenk, Jan Hřgsberg; Statics and Mechanics of Structures, 2013
2. Russell C. Hibbeler; Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 2015
3. Kenneth M. Leet, Chia-Ming Uang, Joel T. Lanning, Anne M. Gilbert; Fundamentals of Structural Analysis, 2018
4. Background documents on the Eurocodes
Recommended literature:
1. Gere, Timoshenko: Mechanics of materials, PWS-Kent, Boston, 1990.
2. SCIA online tutorials: http://www.scia-online.cz/index.php?typ=CDA&showid=806.
3. Timoshenko S.,Young D.H.: Engineering mechanics-statics, Mc Graw-Hill,
New York.
4. R.C. Hibbeler: Statics and mechanics of materials, Macmillan Publishing
Company, USA, 1992.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.