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

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289781

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.