Course Details
Testing and Technology
Academic Year 2024/25
BIA002 course is part of 3 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Division of concrete types. Concrete components. Concrete composition, methods of calculation. 2. Rheology of fresh concrete. Processing of fresh concrete, formwork system and molds. Compaction of fresh concrete. 3. Hardening of concrete, accelerated hardening of concrete, concreting in winter, curing of concrete. 4. Mechanical properties of concrete, deformational characteristics, water tightness, permeability. Durability of concrete. 5. General and theoretical principles of silicate production. 6. Introduction - overview of testing methods. 7. Measurement of selected properties of building materials. 8. Tensometry. 9. Electroacoustic methods. 10. Dynamic and static moduli of elasticity of concrete. 11. Load tests. 12. Radon. 13. Radiometry in building construction.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introductory laboratory practice. 2. Design of concrete composition. 3. Manufacture of concrete according to prescribed composition. 4. Tests on raw and adapted materials. 5. Tests on burned silicate fragments. 6. Quality control of concrete. 7. Tensometric measurement of stress of the material of construction. 8. Dynamic moduli of elasticity. 9. Static moduli of concrete. 10. Study load test of a bridge model. 11. Determination of radon content. 12. Radiometric determination of volume mass and moisture. 13. Final summary, credit.