Concrete Structures

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	221-0003/08
Abbreviation	BK (Mgr.)
Course title	Concrete Structures
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Structures
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Radim Čajka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Plane reinforced concrete structures, thin slab, thick slab.
2. Plastic equilibrium method
3. Flat slab, direct design method
4. Flat slab, equivalent frame method
5. Circle slab, waffle floor
6. Wall structures, design methods
7. Tanks and reservoirs. Action on tanks and silos.
8. Walls and dumps of silo, design, reinforcement configuration
9. Design of wall-slab structures using FEM
10. Interaction models of subsoil, advanced analysis of strip, grid and slab foundation
11. Space foundation structures
12. Pile foundations
13. Concrete floor. Machine foundations.
14. Particular engineering structures, basic principles of pre-stressing.

Tutorials:
1. Repeating of one way slabs, two way slabs. Individual task 1
2. Repeating of one way slabs, two way slabs.
3. Design of slab using plastic equilibrium method
4. Flat slab, direct design method. Individual task 2
5. Flat slab, equivalent frame method.
6. Punching of flat slab
7. Test – flat slab. Deadline for individual task 2
8. Circle slab. Wall structure.
9. Tank. Individual task 3
10. Action on walls and dumps of silo
11. Test – tanks. Deadline for individual task 3
12. Foundation strip under columns
13. Foundation slab
14. Presentation of individual task 3

Literature

1. EN 1992-1-1 Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 1: General rules and rules for buildings. CEN, Brussels.
2. EN 1991-4 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 4: Silos and tanks. CEN, Brussels.
3. EN 1997-1 Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design - Part 1: General rules. CEN, Brussels.

Advised literature

1. Martin, L. H., Purkiss, J.A.: Concrete Design to EN 1992. Elsevier, 2006.
2. Gamble L. W.: Reinforced Concrete Slabs (2nd edition). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
3. Procházka, J., Štemberk, P.: Design procedures for reinforced concrete structures. Česká technika – nakladatelství ČVUT, ČVUT Praha 2009.

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