Description:

Introducing in civil engineering, basic elements and structures

Contents:

Building Design Concept, Requirements on Buildings
Structural Systems ? Materials, Design Process, Elements
Structural systems - Structural units ? Interaction - Stability
Vertical Load Bearing Structures (Function, Requirements)
Vertical Load Bearing Structures (Principles of wall structures)
Vertical Load Bearing Structures (Principles of column structures)
Floor Structures (Function, Requirements,)
Floor Structures (Vaults, Timber Floors, RC floors)
Floor Structures (Steel and Composite Floor Slabs)
Overhanging structures - types, functions, structural and statical principles, requirements
Multi-Storey Building Structures
Long Span Building Structures
Expansion joints in buildings - effects of non-forced loads on static behavior of buildings, location and structural solutions of expansion joints. Staircases, sloping ramps, lift shafts - structural and material solutions, static principles, load, requirements. Building foundations - foundation conditions, types of foundations, principles, requirements. Interaction of load bearing structure - foundations - soil. Substructure - static principles, load, requirements, dilatation joints. Roof trusses - traditional and modern systems, requirements, design and material solutions, static principles, load. Anchor techniques - profile types, static problems, usage, load, requirements. Waterproofing techniques and systems, requirements, conditions.

Seminar contents:

without exercises

Recommended literature:

Barry R.: The Construction of Building, Volume 1, Oxford BSP, 1991
Barritt C. M. H.: Advanced Building Construction, Vols. 1 - 4, Longman, 1988 - 1991
Gattermayerova: Lectures Syllabus on web

Keywords:

Requirements for building structures, load bearing structures, vertical structures, horizontal structures, overhanging structures, expandion joints, staircases, foundations

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar