Course Details

Building Chemistry

Academic Year 2024/25

BC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

both

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Composition of nucleous, isotopes, radioactivity. 2. Atomic structure, quantum numbers, Pauli Principle, Aufbau Principle, Hund’s rule, periodic trends in atomic properties, periodic table. 3. Atomic masses, the mole, molecular weight, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds. 4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rates, activated complex, catalysis. Thermochemistry, Hess’s and Lavoasier’s laws. Phase equilibriums, gases, liquids, solids, and crystallography. 5. Dispersion orders - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsion, colloids, water solutions, and tezides. 6. The properties of chosen inorganic compounds of carbon, silicon. 7. Chemical composition and properties of natural and secondary raw materials. Production, composition and chemical properties of lime, gypsum plaster, Sorel binder. 8. Production, chemical properties and composition of hydraulic binders – Portland cement, hydraulic lime and high alumina cement. Chemistry and degradation of glass. 9. Corrosion of binders, protection against degradation processes. 10. Electrochemistry, galvanic cells, standard reduction potentials, electrolysis, metals and metal corrosion. 11. Chemistry of water and atmosphere. 12. Chemical composition of wood and deterioration of timber structures. Chemical properties of bitumen, chemical durability. 13. Composition of polymers based on the carbon chain, their chemical stability. Composition and properties of silicones, chemical durability.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Information regardeing laboratory session 2. Acids 3. Bases 4. Neutralization and hydrolysis of slts 5. Oxidation and reduction 6. Lime, plaster of Paris 7. Cements 8. Other building materials 9. Water 10. Water in consuption and the environment 11. Metals 12. Properties of selected organic compounds 13. Final test