The subject of diploma thesis is design and static assessment of steel structure of multipurpose hall. Construction is located in the city Brno. The floor plan is rectangular with dimensions 60 x 80 m. Headroom of the structure is 12,5 m and total height is 16,5 m. A main frame is created of arch truss supported by column and truss structure on both sides. The main frames are joined by purlins. Final support structure was selected from two preliminary variants. For the selected variant was made static calculation of main bearing elements including joints and anchoring, technical report, drawings and bill of quantities.

Diploma thesis describes the design and assessment of the roof structure that covers the courtyard of office buildings. Structure has a regular floor plan and roof height is 15,0 m. The material if the structure is steel S355, bolts 8.8., steel of the pins is S355. Construction is located in Brno. Two options were produced and designed, evaluated according to the latest standards.

The subject of this thesis is a design of new building boarding house with attic flat in Velké Karlovice. House has eight flats and house is designed for temporary accommodation, the capacity is maximum 20 guests. The object is situated on a large and almost a flat land at parcel no. 3640/1. Pension is detached building. The main entrance and arrival is oriented in the northern part of the building. Plan dimensions of the house are 9,5×15 m and 10×15 m. Vertical constructions are made of ceramic bricks of Porotherm, ceiling construction is designed using technology of Spiroll. Stairs construction is a precast element. The building is roofed by saddle roof with purlins.

Object of this master´s thesis is design of supporting steel structure for museum. Ground plan of building is T letter shape. The longest ground plan dimension is 60m. Height of partial sections is different. Maximum height is 12,2m. All sections of construction consist of similar structure system. Construction of roof consists of arched girders. Purlines are embedded on girders. Girders are held by columns. Stability of the structure is provided under system of bracing. The structure is designed for the locality of Brno.

The aim of the master’s thesis is design and assessment of multipurpose sport hall structure. located in Moravské Budějovice. The hall has rectangular ground plan and it is 40 m wide and 48 long. The proposal is developed in four variants according to ČSN EN. Structure is composed of rolling sections and tubes. The main bearing components are arched trusses. In both gable walls are designed steel truss columns. Structure has been accomplished by Scia Engineer 14 and hand computation

The subject of the master’s thesis is elaboration of the complete project design documentation of accommodation. The object is designed as a double-star boarding house with stables and a caretaker's flat. It is situated in the village Pružina-Chmelisko, on recreation grounds. The object of the boarding house is divided into three above-ground floors and one underground floor. The roof structure is designed as a gable roof. The stables are single-storey buildings with partially used attic above the caretaker’s flat. The roof structure is gabbled. The carrier system of the boarding house consists of clay blocks and a monolithic, reinforced concrete floor slab. The stables’ carrier system is designed as a wooden joist floor, ceramic fittings are slated for filling. Within specialization is the solution of fire safety assessment of both buildings, thermal technical assessment, assessment of acoustics and lighting of the boarding house.

The diploma thesis contains design of steel one-aisle industrial hall with span 24 m, length 63 m and height of the holder of a crane track girder 8,7 m. In hall are two overhead cranes, first with load capacity 50 tons and second with load capacity 32 tons. Main structural material is steel S 450. Is processed several versions and one is processed in detail. Drawings contain platform and section of hall and manufacturing drawings of crane runway.

Z-sections are widely used as secondary members in metal building roof systems. Lateral restraints are required to maintain the stability of a Z-section roof system and provide resistance to the lateral forces generated by the slope of the roof and the effects due to the rotation of the principal axes of the Z-section relative to the plane of the roof sheathing. The behavior of Z-sections in roof systems is complex as they act in conjunction with the roof sheathing as a system and as a light gage cold formed member, is subject to local cross section deformations. The goal of this research program was to provide a means of predicting lateral restraint forces in Z-section supported roof systems. The research program began with laboratory tests to measure lateral restraint forces in single and multiple span sloped roof systems. A description of the test apparatus and procedure as well as the results of the 40 tests performed is provided in Appendix II. To better understand the need for lateral restraints and to provide a means of testing different variables of the roof system, two types of finite element models were developed and are discussed in detail in appended Paper I. The first finite element model is simplified model that uses frame stiffness elements to represent the purlin and sheathing. This model has been used extensively by previous researchers and modifications were made to improve correlation with test results. The second model is more rigorous and uses shell finite elements to represent the Z-section and sheathing. The shell finite element model was used to develop a calculation procedure referred to as the Component Stiffness Method for predicting the lateral restraint forces in Z-section roof systems. The method uses flexural and torsional mechanics to describe the behavior of the Z-section subject to uniform gravity loads. The forces generated by the system of Z-sections are resisted by the "components" of the system: the lateral restraints, the sheathing and Z-section-to-rafter connection. The mechanics of purlin behavior providing the basis for this method are discussed in appended Paper II. The development of the method and the application of the method to supports restraints and interior restraints are provided in appended papers III, IV and V. / Ph. D.

Nos últimos anos tem sido observada uma significativa redução do uso das telhas pesadas nas edificações industriais, como as telhas de fibrocimento, por exemplo, e a preferência por telhas mais leves e que permitem maior racionalização da construção, como as telhas metálicas (aço zincado e alumínio). Assim, a fixação por meio de ganchos foi naturalmente sendo substituída por parafusos auto-atarraxantes, permitindo uma elevada eficiência estrutural da interação terça-telha, portanto, as terças que eram tratadas como elementos estruturais independentes passaram a ser projetadas com base no comportamento conjunto com as telhas. Diante disso, este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o comportamento estrutural de terças de aço considerando a interação terça-telha, com ênfase na distorção lateral. Para tanto, são analisados os modelos teóricos encontrados na literatura e os procedimentos normativos, bem como são desenvolvidas análises numéricas de sistemas representativos de coberturas, via método dos elementos finitos (MEF), que incluem os efeitos da não-linearidade física e geométrica. Através destes modelos numéricos, validados por resultados experimentais de ensaios realizados na EESC-USP, é realizada uma avaliação da influência da rigidez à flexão da terça, da conexão telha-terça, do tipo de seção da terça e da presença e posicionamento de tirantes de travamento lateral das terças. Neste contexto, concluiu-se que as telhas, desde que fixadas adequadamente as terças, contribuem para a estabilidade lateral, impondo mecanismos de falha que diferem substancialmente dos mecanismos clássicos da teoria da estabilidade elástica. / Recent years have seen a significant reduction in the use of heavy sheeting such as fiber cement roof sheets in industrial buildings, and an increasing preference for lighter sheeting that allows for greater rationalization of the construction, such as metallic sheeting (zinc-coated and aluminum). Thus, fixing by means of hooks was naturally replaced by screws, allowing for high structural efficiency of the purlin-sheeting combination, and purlins, which heretofore had been treated as independent structural elements, began to be designed based on their combined behavior with sheeting. This paper discusses the findings of a comprehensive on the structural behaviour of steel purlins under wind uplift considering the purlin-sheeting combination, with emphasis on lateral distortional. To this end, an analysis is made of the theoretical models available in the literature and in standard procedures, and systems representative of roofs are analyzed numerically via the finite elements method (FEM), including the effects of physical and geometrical nonlinearity. Based on these numerical models, which are validated by the experimental results of tests conducted at School of Engineering of São Carlos - University of São Paulo, an evaluation is made of the influence of the purlin\'s flexural stiffness, the sheeting-purlin connection, the type of purlin section (channel and Z-sections), and the number of rows of bridging (bracing). In this context, it was concluded that sheeting, provided it is properly fixed to the purlins, contributes toward lateral stability, imposing failure modes that differ considerably from the classic mechanisms of the theory of elastic stability.

Nos últimos anos tem sido observada uma significativa redução do uso das telhas pesadas nas edificações industriais, como as telhas de fibrocimento, por exemplo, e a preferência por telhas mais leves e que permitem maior racionalização da construção, como as telhas metálicas (aço zincado e alumínio). Assim, a fixação por meio de ganchos foi naturalmente sendo substituída por parafusos auto-atarraxantes, permitindo uma elevada eficiência estrutural da interação terça-telha, portanto, as terças que eram tratadas como elementos estruturais independentes passaram a ser projetadas com base no comportamento conjunto com as telhas. Diante disso, este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o comportamento estrutural de terças de aço considerando a interação terça-telha, com ênfase na distorção lateral. Para tanto, são analisados os modelos teóricos encontrados na literatura e os procedimentos normativos, bem como são desenvolvidas análises numéricas de sistemas representativos de coberturas, via método dos elementos finitos (MEF), que incluem os efeitos da não-linearidade física e geométrica. Através destes modelos numéricos, validados por resultados experimentais de ensaios realizados na EESC-USP, é realizada uma avaliação da influência da rigidez à flexão da terça, da conexão telha-terça, do tipo de seção da terça e da presença e posicionamento de tirantes de travamento lateral das terças. Neste contexto, concluiu-se que as telhas, desde que fixadas adequadamente as terças, contribuem para a estabilidade lateral, impondo mecanismos de falha que diferem substancialmente dos mecanismos clássicos da teoria da estabilidade elástica. / Recent years have seen a significant reduction in the use of heavy sheeting such as fiber cement roof sheets in industrial buildings, and an increasing preference for lighter sheeting that allows for greater rationalization of the construction, such as metallic sheeting (zinc-coated and aluminum). Thus, fixing by means of hooks was naturally replaced by screws, allowing for high structural efficiency of the purlin-sheeting combination, and purlins, which heretofore had been treated as independent structural elements, began to be designed based on their combined behavior with sheeting. This paper discusses the findings of a comprehensive on the structural behaviour of steel purlins under wind uplift considering the purlin-sheeting combination, with emphasis on lateral distortional. To this end, an analysis is made of the theoretical models available in the literature and in standard procedures, and systems representative of roofs are analyzed numerically via the finite elements method (FEM), including the effects of physical and geometrical nonlinearity. Based on these numerical models, which are validated by the experimental results of tests conducted at School of Engineering of São Carlos - University of São Paulo, an evaluation is made of the influence of the purlin\'s flexural stiffness, the sheeting-purlin connection, the type of purlin section (channel and Z-sections), and the number of rows of bridging (bracing). In this context, it was concluded that sheeting, provided it is properly fixed to the purlins, contributes toward lateral stability, imposing failure modes that differ considerably from the classic mechanisms of the theory of elastic stability.