Description:

Main aim of course is giving basic information about the structure and properties of the building materials and about their testing methods on the base of the contemporary knowledge and materials engineering approach. The laboratory work (exercise) consists in the testing of building materials from the point of view of physically - chemical properties and their quality control.

Contents:

1. Materials in construction - history, European codes and standards.
2. Materials performance and its measurement.
3. Chemical, physical and biological properties of structural materials.
4. Binding inorganic materials - air lime, gypsum, hydraulic lime.
5. Cement, rendering and plastering mortar.
6. Aggregates for concrete - aggregate grading
7. Concrete - fresh and hardened concrete, properties of concrete.
8. Ceramics, clay masonry units - durability, requirements for CMU.
9. Metals - steel, metals used in construction.
10. Corrosion of metals, corrosion of inorganic materials.
11. Dampness in buildings - interconnection of voids and pore structure.
12. Plastics - thermoplastic material, thermosetting resins.
13. Materials for thermal and watertight insulations.

Seminar contents:

1. Introduction, density, bulk density.
2. Laboratiry lesson 1:Cement I.
3. Laboratory lesson 2: Aggregates.
4.Laboratory 3: Cement II.
5. Laboratory 4: Modulus of elasticity
6. Laboratory 5: Tensile strength.
7. Laboratory 6: Thermal conductivity.
8. Calculations 1: Bulk density, density, water content, porosity, particle size distribution.
9. Calculations 2: Stremgth, modulus of elasticity, concrete mixture design.
10. Seminar 1: Silicate based materials, binders.
11. Seminar 2: Natural organic materials.
12. Seminar 3: Metals.
13. Seminar 4: Polymers.

Recommended literature:

!Somayaji, S.: Civil engineering materials. 2nd ed. - Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN-13: 978-0130839060
!Soutsos M., Domone, P.: Construction Materials. Their Nature And Behaviour, Taylor & Francis Group; 2017, ISBN 9781498741101.
?Mouton, Yves: Organic Materials in Civil Engineering, ISTE Ltd. 2006, ISBN: 978-1-905-20911-8
? Aitcin, Pierre-Claude:High Performance Concrete. CRC Press, 1998, ISBN-13: 978-0419192701
: Materials on the department pages: https://k123.fsv.cvut.cz/en/building-materials/

Keywords:

building materials, materials performance, structural materials, testing methods

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar