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.