Loading and reliability

Lecturer:

Jaroslav Kruis

Tutor:

Jaroslav Kruis

Supervisor:

Department of Mechanics

Synopsis:

Taxonomy of loading. Static loading. Introduction to dynamic loading - harmonic loading and impact. Wind and snow loading according to ENV.Heat transfer and temperature distribution. Earth pressures. Reliability: basic terms, reliability index. Application of theory of reliability and probability in ENV. Combination of several loading cases.

Requirements:

no prerequisites

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Student will be familiar with loadings (according to ENV) and will be introduced to basic terms of the theory of reliability.

Study materials:

1. Blockley D.: The nature of structural design and safety., Ellis Horwood Ltd. Chichester and J. Wiley & Sons, New York - Toronto, 1980., 2. Rao, S.S.: Reliability-Based Design. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992.,

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomTH:A-229 Kruis J. 14:00–14:50 (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) A229roomTH:A-229 Kruis J. 15:00–15:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.259) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) A229
Fri
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: