Course Details
Testing and Technology
Academic Year 2025/26
BIA002 course is part of 3 study plans
BPA-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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. 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.