Building Materials

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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

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Further information:

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

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

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