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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Steel and Timber Structures and Bridges

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 221-0954/01
Abbreviation KDKM
Course title Steel and Timber Structures and Bridges
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Structures
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Antonín Lokaj, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Composite steel and concrete structures – general principles, composite steel and concrete floors.
2. Composite steel and concrete structures – composite steel and concrete columns, joints in composite steel and concrete structures.
3. Corrosion of structural steel, anticorrosive protection. Inspections, maintenance and reconstructions o steel structures.
4. Actions on bridges, terminology, design principles.)
5. Spatial arrangement of bridges, dispositional arrangement.
6. Pavement of bridges, bridge deck, bridge accessories and attachments, bridge bearings, bridge fasteners.
7. Fatigue of steel bridges.
8. Plate steel girder bridges.
9. Composite steel and concrete girder bridges.
10. Truss steel girder bridges.
11. Spatial interaction of steel bridge members.
12. Beam grillages, skew bridges.
13. Curved bridges. Frame bridges.
14. Fabrication and erection of bridge structures, examples of existing bridges.

Tutorials:
1. Practical exhibition of bridge structures, important parts of bridges. Spatial arrangement of road and railway bridges.
2. Action on structures – Traffic loads on bridges according to EN 1991-2.
3. Influence lines on statically determined structures.
4. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, load actions on the structure.
5. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, structural analysis.
6. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, design of the superstructure.
7. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, effect of concrete creeping and shrinking.
8. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, design of stud connectors.
9. Composite steel and concrete road bridge, effect of temperature, design documentation.
10. Standard bridge design documentation – railway bridges.
11. Design of a railway bridge with orthotropic steel deck using Standard bridge design documentation MVL 212.
12. Typical details on steel bridge structures, principles of design and fabrication.
13. Fabrication and erection of bridge structures, examples of existing bridges.
14. Bridge inspection.

Literature

1. Sanpaolesi, L., Croce, P.: Design of bridges, Handbook 4, Leonardo da Vinci pilot project CZ/02/B/F/PP-134007, Pisa, 2005.

Advised literature

1. Pechal, A.: Bridges. Ing. Antonín Pechal, CSc. Publishing, Brno, Czech Republic, 2009, ISBN 978-80-254-5279-0.
2. Troyano L.F.: Bridge Engineering a Global Perspektive. University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
3. Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan: Bridge Engeneering Handbook, CRC Press, 1999.
4. EN 1993-1-1: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings 2005.
5. EN 1990: Eurocode: Basis of structural design, 2002.
6. EN 1991: Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 2: Traffic loads on bridges, 2003.
7. EN 1993-2: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 2: Design of bridges.