Course Details

Testing and Technology

Academic Year 2025/26

BIA002 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BKC-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.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

winter

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

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.


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.

Basic Literature

Zkušebnictví a technologie – cvičebnice, Kolektiv autorů, CERM, Brno, 2022 (cs)
Základy zkušebnictví, Pavel Schmid, CERM, Brno, 2004 (cs)
Technologie betonu, Petr Pytlík, VUTIUM Brno, 2000 (cs)
Nedestruktivní zkoušení materiálů a konstrukcí, Bernard kopec a kol., CERM, 2008 (cs)
Properties of Concrete 5th Edition, Adam M. Neville, Trans-Atlantic Publications, 2012 (en)
Durability of Concrete: Design and Construction, Mark Alexander, Arnon Bentur, Sidney Mindess, CRC Press, 2017 (en)
Testing of Concrete in Structures: Fourth Edition, John H. Bungey, Steve Millard, Michael Grantham, ‎CRC Press, 2018 (en)
Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete, V.M. Malhotra, Nicholas J. Carino, CRC Press, 2003 (en)
Non-destructive Characterization of Materials VII, Anthony L. Bartos, Robert E. Green Jr., Clayton O. Ruud, TTP, 1996 (en)
BODNÁROVÁ, L.; SOKOLÁŘ, R.; STEHLÍK, M.; KOCÁB, D.; POSPÍCHAL, O. Testing and Technology BI02_M01, M02, M03. Testing and Technology. VUT Brno. Brno: VUT Brno, 2011. p. 1-182 (en)
HINKS, J. and COOK, G. The Technology of Building Defects. Routledge, 1997. p. 1-376. ISBN – 13: 978-0419197805 (en)
RANSOM, W. H. Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avidance. Routledge, 2002. p. 1-192. ISBN-13: 978-0419142706 (en)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wntb8Xryq4JOMAs-RJltSGloG8rPoP89 - Readings (en)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K-C12mEHqKc1rNc2V-PS_l_6pkqpmerX - Moduli (en)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289617

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.