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.