Course Details

Composite Materials

Academic Year 2025/26

NJA028-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lenka Bodnárová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

English

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295858

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Development of composite materials, distribution of composite materials, definitions.
  • 2. Variables defining composites’ properties, structural classification, design, specifics of design.
  • 3. Fibre composites, fibres, matrices.
  • 4. Composite materials with cement matrix reinforced with fibres (steel, polymer, glass, cellulose, basalt fibres).
  • 5. Glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC) .
  • 6. Fibre cement.
  • 7. Wood-cement composite materials.
  • 8. Materials with an alkali-activated matrix.
  • 9. Composite materials with polymer matrix reinforced with fibres (FRP), properties of input materials, production technology.
  • 10. Composite materials with polymer matrix reinforced with fibres, properties, durability, application.
  • 11. New materials for structure reinforcement, lamellas, reinforcement fabrics.
  • 12. Particle composites, resistance of composites to high temperatures.
  • 13. Unidirectional composites, fibre representation. Mechanism of unidirectional composites, longitudinal strength, modulus of elasticity and strength, thermal expansion, and transport properties.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introductory exercise, safety training, laboratory rules.
  • 2. Cement-matrix composites – effects of particulate aggregates on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 3. Cement-matrix composites – influence of the quantity and type of polymer fibres on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 4. Cement-matrix composites – influence of the quantity and type of steel fibres on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 5. Cement-matrix composites – influence of the addition of glass, cellulose, and basalt fibres on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
  • 6. Composite materials with an alkali-activated matrix, preparation of particulate and fibrous composites.
  • 7. Polymer binder-based composites – polymer concrete and polymer mortar, special types, use.
  • 8. Field trip – production of composites with polymeric matrix reinforced with fibres (FRP), long- and short-fibre composites, pultrusion.
  • 9. Field trip – production of wood-cement composite materials.
  • 10. Field trip – production of steel fibres into concrete.
  • 11. Field trip – production of composites with polymer matrix.
  • 12. Presentation of seminar papers.
  • 13. Checking protocols. Credit.