Course Details

Concrete Technology – Laboratories

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Overview of tests for concrete components, fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 2. Basic technological tests of aggregates.
  • 3. Calculation of aggregates mixing relations, blending of fractions.
  • 4. Design methods for concrete composition.
  • 5. Methods for determining the consistency of fresh concrete.
  • 6. Calculate the composition of concrete for the given class, consistency, type of cement and aggregates.
  • 7. Study trip in a transport-concrete plant.
  • 8. Verification of the basic properties the designed concrete.
  • 9. Checking of water quantity influence in concrete under constant dose of cement on concrete workability and on concrete strength after 7 days of standard hardening.
  • 10. Study of the influence plasticizing additives influence on properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 11. Study of the influence between fine and coarse aggregates on the consistency of fresh concrete and on the strength of hardened concrete.
  • 12. Study of the influence of aerating additives effect on concrete properties.
  • 13. Final-test.