Course Details
Testing and Technology
Academic Year 2023/24
BIA002 course is part of 3 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
The content of the subject is divided into two specialized sections:
1) Testing in civil engineering and
2) Technology of concrete and silicate production.
Ad 1)
Requirements for building materials according to the EU directive on building products and the system of tests of materials, segments and constructions.
Division of tests into certificate tests and checking tests, destructive and non-destructive.
Regression relations and statistic evaluation of results.
Essentials of non-destructive testing methods and their application in laboratories (electro-acoustic, magnetic and hardness non-destructive measurement methods).
Radiometric methods of the detection of reinforcement location, volume mass and moisture of bulk materials and radon in buildings.
Ad 2)
Technology of concrete production. Types and components of concrete.
Fresh concrete processing, concrete hardening and curing.
Basic findings about production and usage of silicate products.
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Objective
Acquainting with physical principles of destructive and non–destructive testing principles, determination of the possibilities of particular testing methods within building structures surveys, the ability of practice realizing of particular testing methods. Principles within design and produce of fresh concrete, concrete types and its testing, properties and possibilities of ceramic products using.
Knowledge
Students will be able to determinate the possibilities of particular testing methods within building structures surveys, the ability of practice realizing of particular testing methods. Principles within design and produce of fresh concrete, concrete types and its testing, properties and possibilities of ceramic products using.
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.
Prerequisites
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Offered to foreign students
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.