Course Details

Binders 3

Academic Year 2025/26

NJA029 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Marcela Fridrichová, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295861

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.Sources of calcium and magnesium carbonate for the production of inorganic binders and their use in technical practice outside the construction industry.
  • 2. Sources and use of calcium sulphates for the production of inorganic binders.
  • 3. Sources and use of alumina and ferric oxide for the production of inorganic binders.
  • 4. Sources and use of silica for the production of inorganic binders.
  • 5. Improvement of properties of hemihydrate plaster: modifying additives, overview and mechanism of their function, influence of grinding.
  • 6. Improvement of the properties of anhydrite mortars: modifying additives, overview and mechanism of their function, pigments, effect of grinding.
  • 7. Preparation of hydraulic lime: hydraulic lime for historical mortars and plasters, hydraulic lime with pozzolanic component based on waste materials.
  • 8. Utilization of waste materials as part of the raw material base for clinker production and for preparation of blended cements: recycled materials from building industry, fluidized bed fly ash, industrial gypsum etc.
  • 9. Clinker minerals, mechanism of their hydration and formation of hydration products.
  • 10. Belitic, BCSA and CSA cement: preparation, phase composition and properties.
  • 11. Other special cements: preparation, phase composition and properties.
  • 12. Preparation and properties of industrially produced dry mortar mixtures: grouts, mortars, plasters.
  • 13. Preparation and properties of special dry mortar mixtures: shielding baryte mixtures, self-leveling mixtures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Laboratory order, theoretical description of the test procedures.
  • 2. Preparation of samples of high-quality sulfate binder by gypsum dehydration.
  • 3. Preparation of samples of calcium hydrosilicates in various conditions.
  • 4. Performing mineralogical analyzes of prepared samples using X-ray diffraction analysis and scanning electron microscopy.
  • 5. Evaluation of achieved results of sulphate binder and calcium hydrosilicate analyzes.
  • 6. Control of reports, credit.