Course Details

Diagnostic methods in building

Academic Year 2025/26

BIA007 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Pilot reading. Building surveys.
  • 2. Hardness measurement methodology.
  • 3. Pull-off tests, ultrasonic method.
  • 4. Radiating defectoscopy I. - radiometry
  • 5. Concrete structures diagnostic.
  • 6. Masonry diagnostic.
  • 7. Timber and steel structures diagnostic.
  • 8. Cracking and cracks development in constructions.
  • 9. Reinforcement bar diagnostic.
  • 10. Radiation flaw detection II. - radiography
  • 11. Durability and lifetime of structures.
  • 12. GPR method.
  • 13. Long-term monitoring of historical buildings defects.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Task of seminar paper, draft of diagnostic of reinforced concrete structures.
  • 2. Homogenity of concrete, ultrasound method.
  • 3. Hardness testing of concrete.
  • 4. Testing of cores, the characteristic compressive strength of concrete.
  • 5. Electromagnetic indicators of reinforcement.
  • 6. Testing of structures with Georadar (GPR).
  • 7. Radiating defectoscopy I. – radiometry.
  • 8. Radiating defectoscopy II. – X-ray, gamma ray.
  • 9. Testing of brick masonry.
  • 10. Monitoring of structures, deformation measurements.
  • 11. Methods for the monitoring of surface properties.
  • 12. Presentation of seminar papers.
  • 13. Test, classificated credit.