Course Details

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Academic Year 2025/26

NMB016 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Road Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295904

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Traffic in the world.
  • 2. Functional tests of bitumens.
  • 3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
  • 4. Asphalt mixtures production.
  • 5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
  • 6. Functional tests of soils.
  • 7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
  • 9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Traffic in the world.
  • 2. Functional tests of bitumens.
  • 3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
  • 4. Asphalt mixtures production.
  • 5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
  • 6. Functional tests of soils.
  • 7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
  • 9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.