Course Details

Experimental Methods of Construction Survey

Academic Year 2025/26

NIB015 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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 – experimental analysis of structures and members. Reliability scheme and modeling of structures.
  • 2. Mathematical and physical models of structure behavior.
  • 3. Cracking properties of cement composites. Experimental methods of determination of cracking properties.
  • 4. Experimental load tests.
  • 5. Methodology of long-term monitoring of bridge structures.
  • 6. Methodology of experimental verification of reological properties of concrete in laboratory and in-situ.
  • 7.–8. Magneto-elastic measurement of stresses in prestressing reinforcement. Sensor calibration.
  • 9.–10. Experimental and analytic means of time dependent analysis of structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Experimental methods for determining fracture properties of materials.
  • 2. Experimental load tests. Methods of loading, sensing methods of static and dynamic variables.
  • 3. Methods of measurement of relative strain - strain gages.
  • 4. Methods of experimental verification of the rheological properties of concrete in laboratory conditions.
  • 5. Experimental methods for verifying the reliability of the additional reinforcement elements supporting structures.
  • 6. Method flat presses in the diagnosis of masonry structures.
  • 7.–8.Load testing of ceramic ceiling panels CSD HURDIS. Methodology load test segment structure.
  • 9.–10. Application of methods of non-contact measurement of strains in a tensile test. Monitoring the formation and development of cracks.