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
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. 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.