Course Details

Concrete Technology – Laboratories

Academic Year 2024/25

BJA006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Overview of tests for concrete components, fresh and hardened concrete. 2. Basic technological tests of aggregates. 3. Calculation of aggregates mixing relations, blending of fractions. 4. Design methods for concrete composition. 5. Methods for determining the consistency of fresh concrete. 6. Calculate the composition of concrete for the given class, consistency, type of cement and aggregates. 7. Study trip in a transport-concrete plant. 8. Verification of the basic properties the designed concrete. 9. Checking of water quantity influence in concrete under constant dose of cement on concrete workability and on concrete strength after 7 days of standard hardening. 10. Study of the influence plasticizing additives influence on properties of fresh and hardened concrete. 11. Study of the influence between fine and coarse aggregates on the consistency of fresh concrete and on the strength of hardened concrete. 12. Study of the influence of aerating additives effect on concrete properties. 13. Final-test.