Course Details

Metal and Wood Materials

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA010 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jan Vaněrek, 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/289782

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Living tree species, wood quality grading, and usage of timber in structures, types of wood products.
  • 2. Types of laminated wood, agglomerated wood with mineral or organic binder component.
  • 3. Macroscopic features of wood, anisotropy of wood.
  • 4. The microscopic wood structure, description of the basic elements of wood.
  • 5. Submicroscopic structure of wood, composition of cellular elements, the chemical composition of wood.
  • 6. Physical properties of wood, in particular regarding the moisture sorption/desorption, adsorption hysteresis, thermal properties.
  • 7. The visco-elastic properties of wood, the strength characteristics.
  • 8. Wood/timber defects.
  • 9. Metals – classification, properties, production of pig iron.
  • 10. Production of steel, labelling of steel for concrete and stainless steel, alloying of steel.
  • 11. Cast-iron production, classification of cast-irons, types of metal melting processes.
  • 12. The crystalline structure of iron, the structural components of steel, the system Fe-C, the thermal treatment of steel.
  • 13. Non-ferrous metals, technical alloys.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction of schedule of the exercise lectures (application and usage of characteristics achieved in laboratory to in-situ application timber or steel structures).
  • 2. Macroscopic characteristics of trees, identifying genus of unknown tree species based on macroscopic characters.
  • 3. Physical properties of solid wood depend on different levels of moisture I – Determination of moisture content, water absorption, bulk density (conventional, at a moisture content) of different wood species.
  • 4. Physical properties of solid wood depend on different levels of moisture II – Determination of swelling and shrinking of the various wood species.
  • 5. Physical and mechanical properties of solid wood I – Determination of compressive strength along the fibres of different wood species, tensile strength along the fibres.
  • 6. Physical and mechanical properties of solid wood II – Determination of compressive strength across fibres of different wood species, tensile strength across the grain.
  • 7. Physical and mechanical properties of solid wood III – Determination of modulus of elasticity (MOE) of different wood species.
  • 8. Technological properties of wood, chemical treatments – Determination of depth penetration of chemical substance by vacuum treatment – evidence of boron.
  • 9. Agglomerated wood, Determination of flexural strength, tensile strength perpendicular to the board (chipboard).
  • 10. Hardness of wood and metal.
  • 11. Physical and mechanical properties of steel, Determination of tensile strength of steel.
  • 12. Technological properties of steel, impact toughness.
  • 13. Examination test.