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.