Course Details

Selected Chapters from Building Physics (R)

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB057 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Kalousek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295825

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Thermal comfort in buildings, heat transfer, thermal properties of building materials.
  • 2. Steady state thermal evaluations. Heat transfer through building constructions. Calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient. Thermal bridges in building constructions. Temperature distribution in building constructions – temperature profiles. 3. Determination of the condensation region within building constructions. Annual balance of evaporated and condensed vapour within building constructions.
  • 4. Non-steady state thermal conditions, temperature damping of building constructions. Thermal receptivity of floor finishings. Thermal stability of the reference room.
  • 5. Energy saving requirements for buildings. Evaluation of energy efficiency of buildings.
  • 6. Basic terminology and quantities of building acoustics, sound propagation, sonic field. Air-borne and structure-borne sound reduction.
  • 7. Daylighting, sky luminance, daylight factor assessment of a room.
  • 8. Plane stress analysis.
  • 9. Application of Airy stress function to solving of basic equations of linear stress analysis, approximate methods.
  • 10. Fracture mechanics – introduction, linear elastic fracture mechanics.
  • 11. Non-linear fracture mechanics. Approximate methods of non-linear fracture.
  • 12. Fracture parameters – methods od determination. Brittleness, size effect.
  • 13. Using of finite element methods in solution of fracture mechanics problems; application to structural materials: plain/reinforced concrete, high strength/performance concrete, ceramics, metals.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Steady state thermal evaluations. Heat transfer through building constructions. Calculation of the overall heat transfer coefficient. Thermal bridges in building constructions. Temperature distribution in building constructions – temperature profiles.
  • 2. Zero energy houses, renewable energy sorces.
  • 3. Determination of the condensation region within building constructions. Annual balance of evaporated and condensed vapour within building constructions.
  • 4. Energy saving requirements for buildings. Evaluation of energy efficiency of buildings.
  • 5. Basic terminology and quantities of building acoustics, sound propagation, sonic field. Air-borne and structure-borne sound reduction.
  • 6. Daylighting, sky luminance, daylight factor assessment of a room.
  • 7. Credit.