Description:

The course of Concrete Bridges is focused on design and construction of this type of bridge structures. Lectures are devoted to spatial arrangement and equipment of road and railway bridges, bridge substructure, effects and realization of prestressing, types of concrete bridge structures and technologies of their construction. Seminars are split into interesting issues and provide an opportunity to apply the learnt principles.

Contents:

Bridge Introduction
Bridge Superstructure, Substructure, Foundations and Bearings
Basics of Prestressed Concrete
Feasibility domain and cable layout
Bridge Loading
Global and Grillage Analysis, Zwettl Example
Strut and Tie Method
Slab and Girder Bridges
Composite Concrete Bridges
Integral Bridges
Box girder bridges and construction methods: balanced cantilever and launching

Seminar contents:

Conceptual Design
Prestressed Beam
Bridge loads
Strut and Tie
Integral
Launching

Recommended literature:

All material is provided on moodle platform.

Keywords:

Bridge, concrete, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete

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