Course Details

Insulation Materials

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA014 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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/289786

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Utility properties of the building work.
  • 2. Insulation against moisture, methods of hydrophobisation.
  • 3. Insulation materials and the technology for subgrade construction.
  • 4. Insulation materials and the technology for the upper part of structure.
  • 5. Technology of bituminous strips production, insulation techniques.
  • 6. Moisture in building materials, degradations processes of building materials.
  • 7. Description of moisture passage in building materials and structures.
  • 8. Building acoustics, hygienic demands.
  • 9. Sound field, acoustics of building structures and building materials.
  • 10. Air and footstep sound-proof insulation, materials for acoustic insulation.
  • 11. Measuring methods for evaluation of acoustic and physical properties of building materials.
  • 12. Utilization of materials for noise reduction.
  • 13. Occurrence of radon, insulation against radon, technology of assembling. Modern heat-insulations, direction of development of alternative energy sources, currently alternative sources of energy.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introductory exercise requirements for completion of the course, safety rules for the implementation of practical laboratory exercises.
  • 2. Testing of bituminous materials.
  • 3. Testing of waterproofing membranes.
  • 4. Testing of thermal conductivity of building materials using a hot wire.
  • 5. Testing of surface emissivity building materials.
  • 6. Testing of absorption coefficient.
  • 7. Testing of capillary absorption coefficient.
  • 8. Basic calculations of the acoustic properties.
  • 9. Aplication of equations for the formulation of sound power.
  • 10. Noise parameters, determining the equivalent noise levels.
  • 11. Design and computational evaluation of acoustic barriers.
  • 12. Calculation reverberation time of the enclosure.
  • 13. Completation of obligations in the exercise test.