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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Concrete Structures Elements

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 221-0059/11
Abbreviation PBK-Bc.
Course title Concrete Structures Elements
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Structures
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Radim Čajka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Principle, utilization and history of concrete. Reliability and limit states.
2. Reological properties of concrete; durability; action of concrete and reinforcement.
3. Bending moment bearing capacity.
4. Shear force bearing capacity.
5. Reinforcement configuration in elements, design plans.
6. Combination of bending moment and tension or compression. Stability problems.
7. Reinforcement configuration for pressed element.
8. Eccentric compression and tension.
9. Punching.
10. Torsion.
11. Serviceability limit state - cracking and limiting the stress in concrete and tension in reinforcement.
12. Serviceability limit state - deformations of concrete structure.
13. Serviceability limit state - deformations of concrete structure.
14. Design of unreinforced concrete elements.

Tutorials:
1. Action on structures, combination for load bearing capacity and serviceability limit state, individual project.
2. Material characteristics of reinforcement, reinforcement configuration, anchorage.
3. Design of simply supported slab and beam.
4. Slab and girder floor, design of the beam.
5. Interactive diagram, combination of stress and bending moment.
6. Shear force load bearing capacity.
7. Plan of reinforcement.
8. Eccentrically pressed column.
9. Eccentrically pressed column, reinforcement configuration.
10. Eccentrically tensioned element.
11. Eccentricity in two directions.
12. Crack elimination.
13. Deflection elimination - simplified method.
14. Calculation of deflection.

Literature

1. EN 1992-1-1 Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 1: General rules and rules for buildings. 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.