Description:

Design of concrete structures on serviceability. Limit states approach. Stress control, cracking and crack width analysis, allowable crack width in concrete structures. Deformation of reinforced concrete structures, numerical and simplified analysis, criteria of acceptance.
Prestressed concrete. Introduction, basic principles, design philosophy, prestress losses, technology of prestressing, pre-tensioning and post-tensioning, verification of serviceability and ultimate limit states.
Masonry structures, introduction, terminology, design of structural elements, reinforced masonry. Strengthening of masonry structures.
Precast concrete structures, design situations, specific problems. Strut and tie models. Joints. Industrial halls. Composite concrete-concrete structures.
Introduction to concrete bridges and introduction to engineering structures.

Contents:

1 Design of concrete structures on serviceability. Limit states approach.
2 Stress control, cracking and crack width analysis, allowable crack width in concrete structures.
3 Deformation of reinforced concrete structures, numerical and simplified analysis, criteria of acceptance.
4 Prestressed concrete. Introduction, basic principles.
5 Prestressed concrete: design philosophy, prestress losses.
6 Prestressed concrete: technology of prestressing, pre-tensioning and post-tensioning, verification of serviceability and ultimate limit states.
7 Masonry structures: introduction, terminology.
8 Masonry strukctures: design of structural elements, reinforced masonry.
9 Strengthening of masonry structures.
10 Precast concrete structures, design situations, specific problems. Joints. Industrial halls.
11 Strut and tie models. Composite concrete-concrete structures.
12 Introduction to concrete bridges, loading, detailing.
13 Introduction to engineering structures.

Seminar contents:

Composite concrete structure design on ULS
Composite concrete structure verification of stresses and drawings
Masonry structure - compressed member, underground wall, non-bearing wall subjected to wind load
SLS - design of the slab on ULS, crack width analysis, defelction analysis
Prestressed concrete beam, design, verification of stresses in SLS and ULSverification (bending)

Recommended literature:

! Navratil, J.: Prestressed concrete, Ostrava : Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2014, p.202, ISBN: 978-80-248-3625-6
?fib Model Code for Concrete Structures, 2010, Ernest und Sohn, Berlin, 2013, p. 434, ISBN: 978-3-433-03061-5
:EN 1990 Basis of structural design
:EN 1992-1-1 Design of concrete structures, Part 1-1 General rules and rules for buildings
:EN 1996 Design of masonry structures
:EN 206 Concrete - Specification, performance, production and conformity

Keywords:

Serviceability limit states, masonry structures, prestressed concrete, precast and composite strustures, structural analysis, construction process, detailing.

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