Course Details

Selected Chapters of Building Materials Technology

Academic Year 2025/26

BJB023 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/289798

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction into the subject, basic concepts.
  • 2. Raw materials for the production of building materials, classification.
  • 3. Raw materials sources, exploitation, treatment, processing.
  • 4. Main chemico – technological processes of building materials production.
  • 5. Technical parameters of machinery.
  • 6. Demands on technical control of technological processes.
  • 7. Testing of products, methods, necessary equipments, tests evaluation.
  • 8. Relevant legislation concerning the wastes, the present state of production and of wastes processing. Testing of wastes properties.
  • 9. Properties of ecological utilization of industrial wastes and secondary raw materials. Familiarization with already produced materials based on wastes.
  • 10. Monitoring of building materials containing secondary raw materials durability.
  • 11. Recent information concerning the research and development in the area of building materials progressive technologies.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction exercise. Students are introduced with the laboratory procedure and safety. They are introduced with filling exercise and the conditions for obtaining the credit.
  • 2. Determination of basic properties of aggregate.
  • 3. Determination of basic properties of fly ash.
  • 4. Grain size analysis by laser granulometry.
  • 5. Ecological characteristics of secondary raw material.
  • 6. Methods for determination of bulk density, volume weight and specific gravity.
  • 7. Test methods for lime and gypsum.
  • 8. Influence of second type admixture on properties cement composites.
  • 9. Excursion.
  • 10. Methods for determination of microstructure of materials.
  • 11. Credit test, grant of the credit.