Course Details
Life Cycles of Building Materials
Academic Year 2025/26
NJB026 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
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. Formulation of basic notion in the field of lifetime building materials (divided to physico-mechanical and physico-chemical influences).
- 2. Physilco-mechanical influences (effects of moisture, freeze, loading etc.).
- 3. Evaluation of particular sort of corrosive conditions and their influence on building materials (gaseous media).
- 4. Evaluation of particular sort of corrosive conditions and their influence on building materials (liquids).
- 5.–7. Mechanism of concrete deterioration and corrosion of reinforcement (corrosion of steel elements in concrete, genesis of cracks, peeling, calcareous and magnesium expansions, sulphate attack, etc.).
- 8. The basic principles of protection building materials.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Definition of basic terms in testing the durability of building materials.
- 2. Preparation of specimens for testing the corrosion resistance of cement composites, production aggressive solutions.
- 3. Preparation of specimens for testing the basic parameters of durability of concrete (frost resistance, water resistance, etc.).
- 4. Implementation of durability testing, evaluation.
- 5. Introduction to physical-chemical analyzes in evaluating the state of building materials.
- 6. Practical application of physical-chemical analyzes in the evaluation of the material exposed in the specific kontext.
- 7. Laboratory testing of the effectiveness of secondary protection.
- 8. Credit test, granting the credit.