Faculty of Civil Engineering
Department: Department of Steel and Timber structures
Contact person: MSc. Tomáš Klas, PhD., MSc. Martin Magura, PhD.
Contact: +421 2 5927 4378
e-mail: tomas.klas@stuba.sk; martin.magura@stuba.sk
Description:
The Department teaches subjects related to the design and construction of steel and timber structures such as theory, design, construction and experimental analysis of building structures, bridges, and special engineering constructions with steel, timber and composite load-bearing systems.
The scientific, research and expert activity of the Department is focused on research, design, realization, diagnostics and reconstructions of load-bearing structures and bridges from steel, steel-concrete, timber, aluminium, glass, membranes, cables and their combinations. The research topics are material characteristics, behaviour of members and joints, stability problems, thin-walled systems, development of new types of progressive constructional systems and the effective usage of timber and its composites. The department laboratory has modern equipment to perform experiments with samples of materials and elements of load-bearing structures.
Projects, publications, cooperation:
Photos:
Fig. 1: In situ experimental strain measurement of steel pipeline DN1200/15,9 of transit gas-pipeline Eustream a.s at area "Posádka" by portable measuring equipment the department owns.
Fig. 2: Experimental measurement of glass beams by loading frame and press in laboratories of the Department.
Fig. 3: Long-term experimental measurement of timber girders in the premises of company Tectum Novum in Zemné.