Building Materials

Garant předmětu:

Alena Vimmrová

Lecturer:

Miloš Jerman, Eva Vejmelková, Alena Vimmrová

Tutor:

Lukáš Fiala, Jan Fořt, Petr Hotěk, Miloš Jerman, Jan Kočí, Václav Kočí, Dana Koňáková, Jitka Krejsová, Jiří Maděra, Martin Mildner, Vojtěch Pommer, Lenka Scheinherrová, Kateřina Šádková, Eva Vejmelková, Alena Vimmrová

Supervisor:

Department of Material Engineering and Chemistry

Synopsis:

Building materials - basic course. Clasification of the materials. Structure of materials. Main properties of materials. Application of materials in building constructions. Introduction to material testing.

Requirements:

No prerequisities.

Syllabus of lectures:

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.

Syllabus of tutorials:

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.

Study Objective:

Recognition of the main building materials. Basic knowledge of the materials properties and their testing .

Study materials:

![1] Svoboda, Luboš a kol.: Stavební hmoty. 2.přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Bratislava: Jaga, 2007. ISBN 978-80-8076-057-1

![2] Haimei Zhang: Building Materials in Civil Engineering. Woodhead Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-1-84569-955-0

![3] Pytlík Petr: Technologie betonu.2. vyd. Brno : VUTIUM, 2000, ISBN: 80-214-1647-5

![4] Mouton, Yves: Organic Materials in Civil Engineering, ISTE Ltd. 2006, ISBN: 978-1-905-20911-8

?[5] Somayaji, S.: Civil engineering materials. 2nd ed. - Prentice Hall, 2001

?[6] Atcin, Pierre-Claude: Vysokohodnotný beton. Informační centrum ČKAIT, 2005, ISBN 80-86769-39-9

?[7] Chybík, Josef: Přírodní stavební materiály. Grada 2009, ISBN 978-80-247-2532-1

Note:

Further information:

https://k123.fsv.cvut.cz/stavebni-hmoty-shma/

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Architektura a stavitelství (compulsory course)
• Architektura a stavitelství (compulsory course)