Course Details
Binders 1 - Computational Principles of the Structure of Silicate (M)
Academic Year 2025/26
BJB002 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the subject, content and evaluation criteria.
- 2. Basic terms in the field of sulfate binders.
- 3. Basic concepts of lime.
- 4. Basic concepts in the field of cement.
- 5. Basic concepts and calculations – Inorganic chemistry, Material quantity, Radioactivity, XRD.
- 6. Calculations – gas equation, surface tension, capillary height of the capillary, mixing equation.
- 7. Reaction kinetics, derivation of relationship and calculation for shortened durability tests.
- 8. Basic concepts in the field of silicate chemistry – structure of silicates, calculation of the structure valences, design and calculation of the composition of the raw material for the preparation of the selected mineral.
- 9. Laboratory preparation of raw material for preparation of selected mineral, firring and cooling, mineral analysis using XRD and SEM analysis.
- 10. Application of the obtained knowledge in the evaluation of the results obtained in exercise No. 8 - Evaluation of XRD and SEM data, comparison with theoretical design and the theory of silicate formation and the conditions and rules of the solid state reaction.
- 11. Excursion - production of building silicates.
- 12. Test, credit.