Course Details

Building Materials

Academic Year 2024/25

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.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Barbara Kucharczyková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Testing

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Plane geometry, stereometry, goniometric functions, units of physical quantities and their transfers, the fundamental laws of physics, mechanics of bodies.

Aims

Acquainting and practising of building material selected basic properties,the ability to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.

Basic information about constitution, basic properties of building materials and their use as building materials.

Basic Literature

SVOBODA, Luboš: Stavební hmoty . Jaga group, sro, Bratislava, 2009. ISBN 978-80-8076-057-1, http://people.fsv.cvut.cz/~svobodal/sh/ (cs)
Dalibor, Vojtěch: Materiály a jejich mezní stavy, Praha 2020, ISBN 978-80-7080-741-5 (cs)
STEHLÍK, M.; BÍLEK, V. Building Materials. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 2003. p. 1-171. ISBN: 80-214-2544-X (en)
EVERETT, A.; BARRITT, C. M. H. Mitchells Materials. Longman Scientific and Technical, 5th edition, 2014. p. 1-272. ISBN: 9780582219236 (en)
VARGHESE, P. C. Building Materials. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd, 2nd revised edition, 2015. p. 1-283. ISBN – 13: 978-8120350915 (en)
DUGGAL, S. K. Building Materials. New Age, 4th revised edition, 2012. p. 1-612. ISBN – 13: 978-8122433791 (en)
Lecture presentations and Laboratory practice materials are shared with all students registered for the course through MS Teams - "BIA001_Building Materials" team. The registration code will be provided at the start of the course. (en)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281396

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.

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.

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