Course Details

Testing and Technology

Academic Year 2024/25

BI002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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. Division of concrete types. Concrete components. Concrete composition, methods of calculation. 2. Rheology of fresh concrete. Processing of fresh concrete, formwork system and molds. Compaction of fresh concrete. 3. Hardening of concrete, accelerated hardening of concrete, concreting in winter, curing of concrete. 4. Mechanical properties of concrete, deformational characteristics, water tightness, permeability. Durability of concrete. 5. General and theoretical principles of silicate production. 6. Introduction - overview of testing methods 7. Measurement of selected properties of building materials 8. Tensometry 9. Electroacoustic methods 10. Dynamic and static moduli of elasticity of concrete 11. Load tests 12. Radon 13. Radiometry in building construction

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introductory laboratory practice 2. Design of concrete composition 3. Manufacture of concrete according to prescribed composition 4. Tests on raw and adapted materials 5. Tests on burned silicate fragments 6. Quality control of concrete 7. Tensometric measurement of stress of the material of construction 8. Dynamic moduli of elasticity 9. Static moduli of concrete 10. Study load test of a bridge model 11. Determination of radon content 12. Radiometric determination of volume mass and moisture 13. Final summary, credit