Course Details

Experimental Methods of Construction Survey

Academic Year 2024/25

CI055 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

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

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

Introduction – experimental analysis of structures and members. Reliability scheme and modeling of structures. Mathematical and physical models of structure behavior. Cracking properties of cement composites. Experimental methods of determination of cracking properties. Experimental load tests. Methodology of long-term monitoring of bridge structures. Methodology of experimental verification of reological properties of concrete in laboratory and in-situ. Magneto-elastic measurement of stresses in prestressing reinforcement. Sensor calibration. Experimental and analytic means of time dependent analysis of structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Experimental methods for determining fracture properties of materials. Experimental load tests. Methods of loading, sensing methods of static and dynamic variables. Methods of measurement of relative strain - strain gages. Methods of experimental verification of the rheological properties of concrete in laboratory conditions. Experimental methods for verifying the reliability of the additional reinforcement elements supporting structures. Method flat presses in the diagnosis of masonry structures. Load testing of ceramic ceiling panels CSD HURDIS. Methodology load test segment structure. Application of methods of non-contact measurement of strains in a tensile test. Monitoring the formation and development of cracks.