Course Details
Building Materials and Geology
Academic Year 2024/25
AI001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to building materials
2. Aggregate, building rock and rock products
3. Binders and mortar
4. Concrete and concrete products I.
5. Concrete and concrete products II .
6. Silicates and silicate products
7. Steel , metals and non-ferrous metals
8. Polymers , mastics and adhesives, etc.
9. Timber, timber products and construction
10. Geology I - Fundamentals of petrography
11. Geology II . - The effect of internal and external geological forces
12. Geology III . - Geological action of water and groundwater
13. Geology IV . - Assessment of ground soil for construction
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction to laboratory practice
2. – 3. Testing of aggregates for construction purposes
4. – 5. Testing of mortars and binders
6. Testing of hardened concrete
7. Testing of brickmaking products
8. Testing of building steel
9. Testing of polymers
10. Testing of timber
11. – 12. Geology
13. Overall summary, credit