Description

The field of concrete structures regarded as a scientific interest and teaching activity domain has been recognized since the early beginnings of the Gdańsk University of Technology. The main potential of the Department of Concrete Structures, complementing the long lasting tradition and experience is the staff of engineers linking their scientific interests with the design and building practice, active in the most renowned Polish building engineering societies, e.g. Polish Chamber of Civil Engineers and Polish Association of Building Engineers and Technicians. The Department employees are members of scientific and organizing committees of conferences and workshops of scientific, scientific-technical and technical character, both in national and international ranges.

The major scientific interests of the Department workers are limit state analysis and crack morphology of short cantilevers and reinforced concrete (RC) walls, including their strengthening, RC columns, spiral columns, concrete-filled steel tubes (CFST), the cases of non-metallic reinforcement, limit capacity of beams with openings including numerical modelling, diagnostics of civil engineering structures, load-carrying capacity of masonry structures regarding aspects of building physics, pre-stressed concrete (pre-stressed and post-tensioned members), thermal actions in RC tanks, hybrid beams, continuous and discontinuous approaches to simulate concrete cracks (discrete and smeared cracks), scale effect in concrete and RC structures, crack propagation analysis regarding concrete mesostructure, mechanical features of technical fabrics, cooperation of the aluminium console – concrete subgrade system.

Service offer

• Statements, technical-scientific expert opinions due to technical conditions of residential, public and industrial structures, including monumental objects
• Laboratory tests of concrete, reinforcing steel and various building materials
• Experimental research (destructive and non-destructive tests)
  of building structural members, including natural-scale tests
• Specialist educational courses and seminars in the field of concrete, RC, pre-stressed structures and general-scale building engineering

Three workgroups are distinguished in the Department's structure:

• The group of experimental analysis of structural members
  Group Head: Prof. Krystyna Nagrodzka-Godycka
• The diagnostics group of building structures Group Head: Assoc. Prof. Maciej Niedostatkiewicz, GUT professor
• The advanced numerical analysis group of building structures
  Group Head: Assoc. Prof. Jerzy Bobiński, GUT professor