Course Details

Properties and Use of Building Materials in Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

BJ055 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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.Introduction into the subject, basic concepts. 2.Demands on material for structures following different aspects. 3.Basic properties of concrete, advantages and disadvantages for practical application. 4.Concrete components, production, storing, testing. 5.Basic properties of ceramics, advantages and disadvantages for practical use. 6.Raw materials for ceramic manufacture, production, tests. 7.Basic properties of plastics, wood and metals, advantages and disadvantages of for practical use. 8.Testing methods for plastics, wood and metals. 9.Methods for verification of building materials durability. 10.Possibilities of durability and resistance increase of materials. 11.Evaluation of materials embedded in structures- diagnostics of buildings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Testing of basic physical- mechanical properties of cement. 2. Application of clinkering aggregate to the matrix of mortars resistant against higher temperatures. 3. Influence of lighweith substances to properties of ceramic material. 4. influence of sort and quantity fibrous reinforcers while thermal tension to basic characteristic of composite. 5. Testing of properties of burned ceramic body. 6. Testing of properties of repair mortars. 7. Proposal of concretes with specific features. 8. Testing of properties of composite materials with fibrous reinforcement. 9. Excursion into plant deals with production of building materials or components. 10. Theoretical exercise themed by durability of construction material. 11. Credit test, grant of the credit.