Course Details
Physics of Building Materials
Academic Year 2025/26
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.