Course Details
Binders 3
Academic Year 2024/25
NJA029 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st 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.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.