Course Details

Building Materials

Academic Year 2024/25

BI001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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, good laboratory practice 2. Structure and properties of building materials 3. Determination of properties, testing and determination of properties of building materials 4. Building rock, aggregate and rock products 5. Binders and mortar I. 6. Binders and mortar II . 7. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products I 8. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products II 9. Silicates, silicate products and glass 10. Timber, timber products and construction 11. Steel, metals and non-ferrous metals 12. Polymers , other building materials, materials and products 13. Asphalts, tars and road construction materials

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction into laboratory practice 2. Physical properties of aggregate 3. Geometric and physical-mechanical properties of aggregate 4. Properties of fresh binders 5. Properties of fresh mortars 6. Properties of hardened mortars and binders 7. Physical properties of concrete and rock 8. Physical and mechanical properties of rock and concrete 9. Properties of silicates and brickmaking products 10. Properties of timber 11. Properties of steel and other metals 12. Properties of polymers 13. Final summary, credit