Acquiring advanced academic knowledge about the nature of particular actions on structures needed for their adequate treatment during analysis, design and construction, and enabling students to analyse actions on structures of various purposes.

Students possess advanced academic knowledge about the nature of particular actions on structures. They are able to solve problems of different levels of complexity on their own, as well as in communication and interaction with others. They have a positive attitude towards lifelong learning and personal and professional development.

Basic concepts related to actions and their classification. Characteristic and other values of actions. Fatigue actions, dynamic and geotechnical actions. Self-weights. Imposed loads in buildings. Snow loads. Wind actions. Thermal actions. Pressures of liquid. Soil pressures. Seismic actions.

Lectures, consultations. Theoretical and practical parts of the study material are presented at lectures through presentations of individual thematic units, followed by the appropriate examples from engineering practice for the sake of easier perceiving and understanding. In addition to lectures, consultations are held regularly in order to provide students with answers to additional questions related to the study material.