Relatively frequent request when conducting construction surveys of historical constructions is to determine the origin and age of bricks as well as their physico-mechanical properties in the context of a static evaluation of the brickwork. This article addresses this issue using an example of historic brickwork in a bridge construction.
An amendment of the Building Act will bring many changes to developers and building offices. Procedures of the Building Act will be simplified in a lot of cases. Some parts of the Building Act are modified in detail. This amendment has been published in the Collection of Laws under No. 350/2012 Coll .. and it will be effective from January 1, 2013.
The article describes unbiased comparison between two different methods of building protection against subsurface water and moisture – the foundation structure of waterproof concrete and waterproofing envelope based on the bitumen or plastic continuous sheet water proofing. The confrontation of properties and risk factors of the methods is made from the perspective of waterproof concrete structure which is the main content of the article. The comparative analysis is supplemented with the photos from field surveys and the results of independent laboratory tests.
Cracks in industrial concrete floors with top layer of mineral granules are quite common. Their evaluation depends largely on the subjective opinion of the assessors. It is not the exception that the cracks appear after a longer time in the order of weeks to months after the construction. At the time up to three years after construction there is a tendency of their expansion. Cracks have a major impact on the life of industrial concrete floors.
This paper deals with the issue of comparing simulations for steady and unsteady thermal state at the massive structures. In this paper, computer simulations are compared with real measurements and measurements of climatic data. The evaluation showed that the steady-state temperature can be comparing with real model used after the end of the accumulation phase. It is evident that the requirements for the temperature factor of the internal surface of the solid structures, set by legislation, are a safe assumption.
Standards for the building of steel structures in recent years undergone a similar development as the standards for the design of steel structures. System of the Czech standards was supplemented by EN 1090 standard, that became CSN EN 1090. Subsequently, duplicate Czech standards were repealed and replaced by the so-called residual standards, which include provisions that were in the original Czech standards but are not in the standard European.
Video Image Fire Detection is a modern fire detection mechanism of phenomena and processes accompanying fire. Main advantage is the ability and speed of smoke detection, independent of the arrival of the smoke to the sensor. Video Image Fire Detection can achieve higher sensitivity than conventional fire sensors by simultaneously monitoring different parameters in a large area. The article gives basic requirements for Video Image Fire Detector for Automatic Fire Alarm Signaling.
The behaviour of real structures in some cases differs from the structure modeled in computational program. Article deals with the influences that can affect the characteristics of the structure, so that they affect the surface temperature of the structure. In particular, the moisture inside the material and air humidity.
Development of wooden buildings in the Czech Republic is based on the requirement to implement the most low-energy buildings. Still there are many people who are afraid of wooden buildings mainly because of their misconceptions about their behaviour under fire. But the truth is that in a fire wood doesn’t lose its rigidity and strength, and the remaining sections of wood elements are also able to carry the load.
The behaviour of real structures in some cases differs from the structure modeled in computational program. Article deals with the influences that can affect the characteristics of the structure, so that they affect the surface temperature of the structure. In particular, the moisture inside the material and air humidity.
The paper includes conclusions from evaluation of results obtained from long-term measuring of innovative types of timber structures. Based on the results of measurements of vertical and horizontal deformation components it is possible to analyze the real behaviour of structures in given conditions. By assessing deformations in various stages, including particularly external and internal environment temperatures, relative air humidity and moisture content of wood, decisive parameters for real structure behaviour can be established.
The Lower House of Parliament passed an amendment to the Construction Act. It’s the tenth one over 7 years, when the new Construction Act came into effect. Must admit that sometimes this one of the fundamental laws was amended as a part of adoption of another act or amendment of another law. This last one is the most important amendment of the previously adopted amendments.
This paper is based on the results of theoretical, implementation and realization work of load-bearing systems for timber frame houses. The paper contains the conclusions from designing and realization of some selected structures especially of the mountain hotel which is being built in the Krkonoše Mountains (Czech Republic).
Rating of LEED has clearly favored FSC certification (Forest Stewardship Council) over the other, let's say competing types of national and international certification of wood. Critics point to the FSC for example, that in principle there is no clearly identified reason for the creation of an evaluation standard.
The object of this work is a numerical analysis of the behavior of wood-concrete composite ceiling structure, consisting of concrete slab and wooden beams of glued laminated timber. The main objective is to explore the use of concrete slabs, which assists with wooden beams, and using models in ANSYS to investigate its behavior in the load floor construction. The accuracy of numerical analysis of wood-concrete structure fully depends on the material models. Therefore the material models will be later verified by experimental results.
