Course Details

Physics of Building Materials

Academic Year 2024/25

BJA009 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

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. Laws of heat transfer in building materials. 2. Heat-technical properties of building materials. 3. The condition of the material, heat-insulating properties of building materials. 4. Air, air layers, thermal-insulation properties of air layers. 5. Stationary and non-stationary heat transmission. 6. Thermal bridges, hygienic criterion of their effect. 7. Moisture sources in building structures. 8. Humid air, air vapour diffusion. 9. Moisture properties of materials. 10. Annual moisture balance. 11. Evaluation criteria of building structures. Normative conditions of national and European technical legislation. 12. Air permeability, infiltration. 13. Thermal stability, energetic demands of building structures. Experimental heat-technical methods.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introductory exercise requirements for completion of the course, safety rules for the implementation of practical laboratory exercises. 2. Testing of thermal conductivity of Bock's method. 3. Testing of the coefficient of thermal conductivity. 4. Testing of distribution of temperature field electrical analogue method. 5. Testing of temperature attenuation and phase delay in the wall. 6. Testing of relative humidity and moisture determination porous sample construction materials using the indirect method. 7. Solving and assessment of the thermal resistance of the multilayer wall. 8. Calculation thermal resistance of the air layer. 9. Calculation temperature attenuation structures. 10. Risk calculation of internal moisture accumulation in the wall. 11. Calculation intensity of internal condensation in the wall. 12. Years moisture balance in the wall. 13. Completation of obligations in the exercise test.