Course Details
Lightweight Building Materials
Academic Year 2025/26
BJA015 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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. Introduction, classification of lightweight building materials.
- 2. Basic general properties of lightweight building materials etc.
- 3. Sorption properties of lightweight building materials.
- 4. Volume changes and durability of lightweight building materials.
- 5. Reinforcement of lightweight building materials.
- 6. Natural cellular aggregates and concrete manufactured from these materials.
- 7. Other industrial non-treated wastes (for instance cinder, power plant fly ash etc.)
- 8. Industrial wastes prepared as cellular aggregates (slag, fly ash aggloporite etc.)
- 9. Artificially manufactured cellular aggregates (ceramsite, expandite, vermiculite etc.)
- 10. Lightweight organic fillers (saw dust, wood shavings, lightweight plastic fillers) and mineral fibres.
- 11. Classification of cellular concrete. Individual cellular concrete technologies.
- 12. Sorts of input raw materials, demands concerning their treatment.
- 13. Shaping, autoclaving etc.Individual sorts of products, properties, storing, utilization of different products in building structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction exercise, occupational safety, the laboratory regulations.
- 2. Preparation and properties testing of perlite concrete, lightweight aggregate concrete.
- 3. Determination of different types of lightweight aggregate properties.
- 4. Preparation and testing the properties of polystyrene concrete.
- 5. Determination of properties of raw materials for the cellular concrete producing.
- 6. Preparation of non-autoclaved cellular concrete.
- 7. Preparation of autoclaved cellular concrete.
- 8. Preparation of the foam concrete.
- 9. Preparation and testing of properties sawdust concrete.
- 10. Production of ceramic light weight aggregate (ceramsite).
- 11. Excursion to the cellular concrete production plant.
- 12. Credit test.
- 13. Control of protocols, granting the credits.