Course Details
Building Materials
Academic Year 2025/26
BIA001 course is part of 4 study plans
BPA-SI Summer Semester 1st year
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 1st year
BPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, good laboratory practice.
- 2. Structure and properties of building materials.
- 3. Determination of properties, testing and determination of properties of building materials.
- 4. Building rock, aggregate and rock products.
- 5. Binders and mortar I.
- 6. Binders and mortar II.
- 7. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products I.
- 8. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products II.
- 9. Silicates, silicate products and glass.
- 10. Timber, timber products and construction.
- 11. Steel, metals and non-ferrous metals.
- 12. Polymers , other building materials, materials and products.
- 13. Asphalts, tars and road construction materials.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction into laboratory practice.
- 2. Physical properties of aggregate.
- 3. Geometric and physical-mechanical properties of aggregate.
- 4. Properties of fresh binders.
- 5. Properties of fresh mortars.
- 6. Properties of hardened mortars and binders.
- 7. Physical properties of concrete and rock.
- 8. Physical and mechanical properties of rock and concrete.
- 9. Properties of silicates and brickmaking products.
- 10. Properties of timber.
- 11. Properties of steel and other metals.
- 12. Properties of polymers.
- 13. Final summary, credit.