Course Details
Diagnostic methods in building
Academic Year 2024/25
BIA007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Pilot reading. Building surveys.
2. Hardness measurement methodology.
3. Pull-off tests, ultrasonic method.
4. Radiating defectoscopy I. - radiometry
5. Concrete structures diagnostic.
6. Masonry diagnostic.
7. Timber and steel structures diagnostic.
8. Cracking and cracks development in constructions.
9. Reinforcement bar diagnostic.
10. Radiation flaw detection II. - radiography
11. Durability and lifetime of structures.
12. GPR method.
13. Long-term monitoring of historical buildings defects.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Task of seminar paper, draft of diagnostic of reinforced concrete structures.
2. Homogenity of concrete, ultrasound method.
3. Hardness testing of concrete.
4. Testing of cores, the characteristic compressive strength of concrete.
5. Electromagnetic indicators of reinforcement.
6. Testing of structures with Georadar (GPR).
7. Radiating defectoscopy I. – radiometry.
8. Radiating defectoscopy II. – X-ray, gamma ray.
9. Testing of brick masonry.
10. Monitoring of structures, deformation measurements.
11. Methods for the monitoring of surface properties.
12. Presentation of seminar papers.
13. Test, classificated credit.