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.