Course Details

Special Insulations

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA018 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289790

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Special insulation and related legislative requirements (including thermal building protection).
  • 2. Thermal insulation materials – distribution, properties.
  • 3. Traditional Thermal Insulation Materials – EPS, XPS, PUR, Mineral Wool, Glass Wool
  • 4. Super insulation materials – aerogels, vacuum insulating panels (VIP) – part 1.
  • 5. Super Insulating Materials – aerogels, vacuum Insulation Panels (VIP) – Part 2.
  • 6. Thermal insulating materials on a natural basis – distribution, production technology, properties.
  • 7. Heat insulating materials based on secondary raw materials – distribution, production technologies, properties.
  • 8. Waterproofing materials – division, requirements, production, properties.
  • 9. Fire protection, reaction of building materials to fire.
  • 10. Thermal insulation of building structures – ETICS systems – Part 2, special insulation.
  • 11. Methods of location of building-physical defects. New trends in the use of insulation, so-called passive energy houses.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, 2. Determination of properties of waterproofing bituminous foils.
  • 2. Determination of acoustic properties of insulation materials (dynamic stiffness) – part 1.
  • 3. Determination of acoustic properties of insulation materials (sound absorption coefficient) – part 2.
  • 4. Determination of mechanical properties of insulation materials – part 1 (tension at 10% defformation).
  • 5. Determination of mechanical properties of insulation materials – part 2 (tensile and shear strength).
  • 6. Determination of short time water absorption of insulation materials
  • 7. Determination of dimension stability under defined temperature and humidity conditions.
  • 8. Study of dependence of thermal insulating properties of thermal insulating materials on moisture – part 1.
  • 9. Study of dependence of thermal insulating properties of thermal insulating materials on moisture – part 2.
  • 10. Determination of fibers thickness by optical microscopy.
  • 11. Verification, credit test, credits.