Course Details
Building Materials and Geology
Academic Year 2024/25
BIA011 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to building materials.
2. Aggregate, building rock and rock products.
3. Binders and mortar.
4. Concrete and concrete products I.
5. Concrete and concrete products II.
6. Silicates and silicate products.
7. Steel, metals and non-ferrous metals.
8. Polymers, mastics and adhesives, etc.
9. Timber, timber products and construction.
10. Geology I – Fundamentals of petrography.
11. Geology II – The effect of internal and external geological forces.
12. Geology III – Geological action of water and groundwater.
13. Geology IV – Assessment of ground soil for construction.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction to laboratory practice.
2.–3. Testing of aggregates for construction purposes.
4.–5. Testing of mortars and binders.
6. Testing of hardened concrete.
7. Testing of brickmaking products.
8. Testing of building steel.
9. Testing of polymers.
10. Testing of timber.
11.–12. Geology.
13. Overall summary, credit.