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