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

Ing. Amos Dufka, 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/289783

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.