Course Details

Building Materials and Geology

Academic Year 2025/26

BIA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Dalibor Kocáb, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Testing

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289695

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.