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
Institute
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
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.