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