Course Details

Microstructure of Building Materials

Academic Year 2022/23

DJ66 course is part of 4 study plans

D-K-E-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year

D-K-C-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year

D-P-E-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year

D-P-C-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year

Crystallography of inorganic substances. Porous structure, types of pores, their importance. Effect of porosity on physical properties of substances. Theory of hydraulic strengthening of substances. Micromechanics, tension in structure and defects of structure. Physical methods for materials microstructure determination. Electron microscopy and optical microscopy. Physical methods for determination of substances composition. Internal surface of materials and its determination. Significance of microstructure for materials development. Corrosion of inorganic materials. Thermal analyses, practical determination of individual material components microstructure.

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Rostislav Drochytka, CSc., MBA, dr. h. c.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Objective

The aim of the subject is to introduce the students into the crystallography of inorganic materials, accent is laid on the importance of microstructure for the development of new materials, explanation of porosity on physical properties of materials, utilization of basic equipment methods practical determination of individual material components microstructure.

Syllabus

1.-3. Micromechanics, tension in structure and defects of structure. 4.-5. Physical methods for materials microstructure determination.
6.Electron microscopy and optical microscopy.
7.-8.Physical methods for determination of substances composition. Internal surface of materials and its determination.
9.Significance of microstructure for materials development.
10.Corrosion of inorganic materials.
11.-13.Thermal analyses, practical determination of individual material components microstructure.

Prerequisites

Brief fundamentals of General Physical Chemistry concerning the state of aggregates, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, processes on boundaries between phases, sorption effects and basic phenomena of disperse systems – Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry of Silicate Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

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

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/255674

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1.-3. Micromechanics, tension in structure and defects of structure. 4.-5. Physical methods for materials microstructure determination.
6.Electron microscopy and optical microscopy.
7.-8.Physical methods for determination of substances composition. Internal surface of materials and its determination.
9.Significance of microstructure for materials development.
10.Corrosion of inorganic materials.
11.-13.Thermal analyses, practical determination of individual material components microstructure.