Course Details
Optimization of Building Materials Use
Academic Year 2025/26
NJA041 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIM 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 into problems of building products use optimization.
- 2. Problems of quality control and description of general properties of building materials and building structures.
- 3. The process of optimization – mathematical model.
- 4. Demanded technical properties of building materials and building structures. Durability of building materials – general principles.
- 5. Vertical building structures.
- 6. Horizontal building structures.
- 7. Roof structures.
- 8. Surface treatment of building structures.
- 9. Products for external surfaces and external draining.
- 10. Environment, the problems of building material recycling. Energetic demands of building structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, introduction to the practice and the conditions for granting credit.
- 2. Examples of optimization, multi-criteria optimization problem formulation.
- 3. Formulation of multiobjective tasks with the relevant performance requirements of building materials.
- 4. Decomposition of objectives, setting the objective function and restrictive conditions.
- 5. Build decision-making matrix, calculating the weighting of the criteria.
- 6. Decision making under conditions of uncertainty, the application of Bayes' criteria.
- 7. Saatyho solution matrix method of quantitative pairwise comparison.
- 8. Other ways of solving matrix optimization matrix.
- 9. Assessment of the results, verify the applicability of building materials for the intended purpose.
- 10. Check individual assignments students and credit.