Course Details

Properties and Use of Building Materials in Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BJB022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jiří Bydžovský, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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/289797

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction into the subject, basic concepts.
  • 2. Demands on material for structures following different aspects.
  • 3. Basic properties of concrete, advantages and disadvantages for practical application.
  • 4. Concrete components, production, storing, testing.
  • 5. Basic properties of ceramics, advantages and disadvantages for practical use.
  • 6. Raw materials for ceramic manufacture, production, tests.
  • 7. Basic properties of plastics, wood and metals, advantages and disadvantages of for practical use.
  • 8. Testing methods for plastics, wood and metals.
  • 9. Methods for verification of building materials durability.
  • 10. Possibilities of durability and resistance increase of materials.
  • 11. Evaluation of materials embedded in structures- diagnostics of buildings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Testing of basic physical- mechanical properties of cement.
  • 2. Application of clinkering aggregate to the matrix of mortars resistant against higher temperatures.
  • 3. Influence of lighweith substances to properties of ceramic material.
  • 4. influence of sort and quantity fibrous reinforcers while thermal tension to basic characteristic of composite.
  • 5. Testing of properties of burned ceramic body.
  • 6. Testing of properties of repair mortars.
  • 7. Proposal of concretes with specific features.
  • 8. Testing of properties of composite materials with fibrous reinforcement.
  • 9. Excursion into plant deals with production of building materials or components.
  • 10. Theoretical exercise themed by durability of construction material.
  • 11. Credit test, grant of the credit.