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