Description:

The course is focused on design of steel, steel and concrete concrete composite load-bearing structures. The students will learn how to design of simple structural elements (beams, columns, trusses) and structural bolted and welded connections.

Contents:

1. Steel, production; fabrication and erection of structures.
2. Steel properties; material testing, limit states.
3. Global structural analysis, cross section classification.
4. Stability of columns, critical length.
5. Beams, bending resistance; shear resistance.
6. Lateral torsional buckling.
7. Torsion, combined bending and compression.
8. Welded connections.
9. Bolted connections.
10. Steel and concrete composite structures.
11. Fatigue, fatigue design.
12. Corrosion and fire protection of steel structures.
13. Movie of structural behavior, steel fabrication.

Seminar contents:

1. Truss elements.
2. Bolted and welded truss joints.
3. Steel beam, simple end plate connection.
4. Cantilever beam, rigid end plate connection.
5. Column, design for buckling.
6. Visit in material testing laboratory, material tests, introduction to electric arch welding.

Recommended literature:

! Trahair N.S., Bradford M., Nethercot D., Gardner L.: The behaviour and design of steel structures to EC3. Taylor & Francis, 2008, 490 p. ISBN: 978-0-415-41865-2
! Wald F., Macháček J., Jandera M., Dolejš J., Sokol Z., Hájek P., Structural Steel Design According to Eurocodes, CTU Prague, 2012, 197 p. ISBN 978-80-01-05046-0
! Studnička J., Design of Composite Steel and Concrete Structures with Worked Examples, CTU Prague, 2011. 76 p. ISBN 978-80-01-04840-5

Keywords:

Steel structures, Steel-concrete composite structures, bolted connections, Welded connections

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