Course Details

Special Insulations

Academic Year 2024/25

BJ013 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 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, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1.Environment, utilization of alternative heat sources, effectiveness of sources utilization. 2.Energy politics of the government, utility value of the building work. 3.Primary and secondary energetic inputs in building materials use. 4.Thermal audit of buildings, realization and objectives of the audit, utilization of results. 5.Principles of building insulations application in buildings, recycling of building materials and of heat insulations. 6.The building as thermal system, utility properties of materials. 7.Modelling of building materials real effects, influence of physical properties of materials on building structures. 8.Optimization of building insulations use, formulation of the problem. 9.The moisture content in applied building materials. 10.Special hydro-insulation in building structures, protection of building work against moisture effects. 11.Formulation and description of the non-stationary model, describing the simultaneous heat transmission, moisture propagation and the transport of soluble salts. 12.Diagnostics of building structures from the point of view of heat and moisture effects. 13.Methods of building-physical defects localization.New trends of insulations utilization, so called passive energetic houses.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Introduction, 2.Determination of properties of waterproofing bituminous foils – part 1, 3.Determination of properties of waterproofing bituminous foils – part 2, 4.Determination of acoustic properties of insulation materials (dynamic stiffness) – part 1, 5.Determination of acoustic properties of insulation materials (dynamic stiffness) – part 2, 6.Determination of mechanical properties of insulation materials, 7.Determination of short time water absorption of insulation materials– part 1, 8.Determination of short time water absorption of insulation materials– part 2, 9.Determination of dimension stability under defined temperature and humidity conditions, 10.Study of dependence of thermal insulating properties of thermal insulating materials on moisture – part 1, 11.Study of dependence of thermal insulating properties of thermal insulating materials on moisture – part 2, 12.Determination of fibers thickness by optical microscopy, 13.Verification, credit test, credits .