Course Details
Selected Topics in Building Materials Engineering
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Structure and properties of building materials and elements, their classification. Development trends in building materials technology and in building technologies.
- 2. Service life of building materials from their production till buildings rehabilitation and clearance, technical and environmental demands on products, importance of building materials design in structures and their failures.
- 3. Management systems for securing building materials quality, legislative demands.
- 4. Raw materials conditions of building materials manufacturers in the Czech Republic, processing of secondary raw materials, recycling.
- 5. Aggregates, lightweight concrete and cellular concrete.
- 6. Technology and properties of classical binders, their utilization.
- 7. Mortars and concrete - control of their properties.
- 8. Ceramic materials, their properties and utilization of ceramic products.
- 9. Plastic materials and their utilization in building industry.
- 10. Types of composite materials. Particle and fiber composites, fiber types and matrices. Influence of structure on composite properties.
- 11. Polymer-cement mortars and concrete.
- 12. Service life of building materials and elements following the wear degree, mechanical and microstructure changes, testing methods.
- 13. Concrete corrosion, classification of materials according to their durability, methods of building materials durability determination and protection possibilities. Materials for building structures rehabilitation.