Course Details
Experimental Laboratory Methods
Academic Year 2025/26
BJA011 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. Familiarization with the subject content, survey of laboratory methods in the branch of silicates.
- 2. Sampling, preparation and treatment of samples for individual methods.
- 3. X-ray diffraction analysis, apparatuses, principle and utilization.
- 4. Microscopy in the range of the visible spectrum, apparatuses, principle and preparations.
- 5. Electron transmission microscopy, principle, apparatuses, utilization.
- 6. Scanning electron microscopy, principle, apparatuses, utilization.
- 7. Methods of grain size and specific surface determination.
- 8. Methods of density, volume mass and absorption determination.
- 9. High pressure mercury porozimetry, principle, apparatuses, utilization.
- 10. Differential thermal analysis, principle apparatuses, utilization.
- 11. Gravimetric thermal analysis, principle, utilization.
- 12. Contraction dilatometric thermal analysis, principle, utilization.
- 13. Principles of building materials testing, quality control, harmonization of 13standards and regulations.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction exercise. Students are introduced with the laboratory procedure and safety. They are introduced with filling exercise and the conditions for obtaining the credit,
- 2. The methods used for thermal analysis – typical model (sample) for differential thermal analysis,
- 3. The use of differential thermal analysis in the evaluation of specific building materials,
- 4. The practical example of the use of dilatation contraction thermal analysis,
- 5. X-ray diffraction analysis - a case study,
- 6. Use of X-ray diffraction analysis in the evaluation of specific building materials,
- 7. Methods for determining the porosity of the material. A practical example of high-pressure porosimetry interpretation of the results, a sample calculation of method BET,
- 8. Utilization X-ray fluorescence methods in the analysis of silicate materials,
- 9. Excursion to the workplace equipped with sophisticated laboratory equipment,
- 10. Utilization infrared absorption spectrography methods in the evaluation of building materials,
- 11. Utilization methods for determining particle size - sedimentation methods, using the laser beam, etc.,
- 12. The comprehensive assessment of the state respectively. rate of degradation of a particular building material,
- 13. Credit test, grant of the credit.