Course Details

Building Materials and Geology

Academic Year 2024/25

BIA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year

Basic information about structure, basic building material properties and their use as building materials. Methods of testing physical–mechanical properties and durability characteristics 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, polymers and asphalts. Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials. Acquiring knowledge of rock types creating foundation soil. Action of the internal and external geological factors affecting the properties and behaviour of foundation soil with a particular focus on the influence of surface and ground water. Acquiring knowledge of the evaluating methodology of foundation soils for construction in accordance with the current requirements of the practice and European standards.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Dalibor Kocáb, 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

Building materials properties acquainting and practising. Acquainting with geological and building’s foundation conditions. Student will be able to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.
Student will be able to realize the basic tests of various kinds of 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)
Plummer, Ch. C., McGeary, D.: Fyzická geologie. Wm.C.Brow n-McGraw Hill Publishers, 1996. (cs)
ADÁMEK, Jiří: Stavební materiály. CERM, sro Brno, 1996. ISBN 978-80-2140-631-3. (cs)
Šamalíková, M., Locker, J., Pospíšil, P.: Geologie pro stavební inženýry. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, sro Brno, 1995. (cs)
STEHLÍK, M.; BÍLEK, V. Building Materials. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 2003. p. 1-171. ISBN: 80-214-2544-X (en)
ADÁMEK, J.; KOUKAL, J.; STEHLÍK, M. English-Czech Handbook of Building Materials Properties and Testing. PC-DIR spol. s. r. o. Brno, 1995. p. 1-106. ISBN: 80-214-0686-0 (en)
EVERETT, A.; BARRITT, C. M. H. Mitchells Materials. Longman Scientific and Technical, 5th edition, 2014. p. 1-272. ISBN: 9780582219236 (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281527

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to building materials.
  • 2. Aggregate, building rock and rock products.
  • 3. Binders and mortar.
  • 4. Concrete and concrete products I.
  • 5. Concrete and concrete products II.
  • 6. Silicates and silicate products.
  • 7. Steel, metals and non-ferrous metals.
  • 8. Polymers, mastics and adhesives, etc.
  • 9. Timber, timber products and construction.
  • 10. Geology I – Fundamentals of petrography.
  • 11. Geology II – The effect of internal and external geological forces.
  • 12. Geology III – Geological action of water and groundwater.
  • 13. Geology IV – Assessment of ground soil for construction.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to laboratory practice.
  • 2.–3. Testing of aggregates for construction purposes.
  • 4.–5. Testing of mortars and binders.
  • 6. Testing of hardened concrete.
  • 7. Testing of brickmaking products.
  • 8. Testing of building steel.
  • 9. Testing of polymers.
  • 10. Testing of timber.
  • 11.–12. Geology.
  • 13. Overall summary, credit.