221-0305/01 – Concrete Bridges (BtM)
Gurantor department | Department of Structures | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Pavlína Matečková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Pavlína Matečková, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FAST | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
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:
- design and assessment of concrete bridges;
- fabrication and erection of concrete bridges;
- drawing documentation of concrete bridges.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
Within the subject students will be acquainted with the historical development of bridges, with methods of calculation, design and assessment of concrete bridges, including structural design and static solution, principles of reinforcement and drawing documentation. By passing of this subject the students gain knowledge about static action and realization of bridges - slab bridges, beam bridges, arched bridges, suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges even bridges made of prefabricated elements and footbridges for pedestrians.
Compulsory literature:
- Hambley, E., C.: Bridge Deck Behaviour, E&FN SPON, 1991.
- EN 1990 Eurocode - Basis of structural design, 2002.
- EN 1991-1-1 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-1: General actions - Densities, self-weight, imposed loads for buildings, 2002.
- EN 1991-1-5 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-5: General actions - Thermal actions, 2003.
- EN 1991-2: Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 2: Traffic loads on bridges, 2003.
- EN 1992-1-1: Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures - Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings, 2004.
- EN 1992-2: Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures - Part 2: Concrete bridges - Design and detailing rules, 2005.
Recommended literature:
- Collins, M. P., Mitchell, D. Prestressed Concrete Structures, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, 1991.
- Menn, C. Prestressed Concrete Bridges, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1990.
- Navrátil, J. Prestressed Concrete Structures. VŠB – Technical university of Ostrava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2014.
- Navrátil, J.; zich, M. Long-Term Deflections of Cantilever Segmental Bridges, The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 190-195, 2013.
- Stráský, J. Stress ribbon and cable supported pedestrian bridges, Thomas Telford Publishing, London, 2005.
- Šafář, R.: Concrete Bridges - Lectures, Czech technical university in Prague, 2015.
- Šafář, R.: Concrete Bridges – Worked Examples, Czech technical university in Prague, 2013.
- Šafář, R., Petřík, M., tej, P.: Concrete Bridges, Worked examples, Czech technical university in Prague, 2013.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Písemná zkouška.
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 70% attendance in the tutorial. Absence, up to a maximum of 30%, must be excused and accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides the reasonableness of the excuse).
Tasks assigned in tutorial must be hand in within the deadline set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Historical development of the design of bridges, bridges in the Czech Republic and in the world.
2. Types of structural systems, cross-sections, spans, economic and aesthetic design.
3. Reinforced concrete slab bridges and prestressed slab bridges.
4. Girder bridges, box girder bridges and frame bridges
5. Arch bridges, suspension and cable-stayed bridges, footbridges for pedestrians
6. Bridges cast-in-situ into fixed shoring, balanced cantilever construction (cast in-situ), incremental launching.
7. Prefabricated beams and segments, advanced shoring method - Movable Scaffold System, balanced cantilever construction (prefabricated).
8. Hybrid construction, composite concrete-to-concrete structures.
9. Concrete bridges in the undermined territory.
10. Numerical modelling of concrete bridges.
11. Structural analysis of step-by-step constructed bridges.
12. Analysis of the effects of creep and shrinkage of concrete.
13. Analysis of the effects of thermal load on the bridge structures.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction