Course Details
Building Materials
Academic Year 2023/24
BIA001 course is part of 4 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 1st year
BPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 1st year
BPA-SI Summer Semester 1st year
Basic information about structure, basic properties of building materials and their use as building materials.
Testing methods of physical-mechanical properties and durability with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring.
Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, high molecular matters, bitumens, insulating materials, composite materials.
Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials with individual tasks for individual students including elaboration of records about the tests.
Testing methods of physical-mechanical properties and durability with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring.
Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, high molecular matters, bitumens, insulating materials, composite materials.
Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials with individual tasks for individual students including elaboration of records about the tests.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Acquainting and practising of building material selected basic properties,the ability to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.
Knowledge
Basic information about constitution, basic properties of building materials and their use as building materials.
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.
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.
Prerequisites
Plane geometry, stereometry, goniometric functions, units of physical quantities and their transfers, the fundamental laws of physics, mechanics of bodies.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
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.