Course detail
Theoretical Basics of Special Building Materials
FAST-NJB042Acad. year: 2023/2024
Water and its influence on building materials, interface between different phases, surface tension, surface adsorption and desorption, sorption isotherm, dispersions, associative colloids, rheological properties of dispersion systems, surfactants – influence on building materials, metakaolin, fly ash, slag, water glass, alkali-activated slag, geopolymers.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)
Entry knowledge
Basics of general and inorganic chemistry, chemical composition of building materials, chemical nomenclature, chemistry and technology of binders.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Not applicable.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Aïtcin P.-C., Flatt R. J. Science and Technology of Concrete Admixtures, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge UK, 2016. ISBN 978-0-08-100693-1 (EN)
Bartovská L., Šišková M., Fyzikální chemie povrchů a koloidních soustav, Vydavatelství VŠCHT, Praha, 2005. (CS)
Mezger T. G. Applied Rheology, Anton Paar, Austria, 2014. ISBN 978-3-9504016-0-8 (EN)
Shi C., Krivenko P. V., Roy D. Alkali-Activated Cements and Concretes, Taylor&Francis, Abingdon, UK, 2006. ISBN 978-0-415-70004-7 (EN)
Bartovská L., Šišková M., Fyzikální chemie povrchů a koloidních soustav, Vydavatelství VŠCHT, Praha, 2005. (CS)
Mezger T. G. Applied Rheology, Anton Paar, Austria, 2014. ISBN 978-3-9504016-0-8 (EN)
Shi C., Krivenko P. V., Roy D. Alkali-Activated Cements and Concretes, Taylor&Francis, Abingdon, UK, 2006. ISBN 978-0-415-70004-7 (EN)
Recommended reading
Provis J. L., van Deventer J. S. J. Akali Activated Materials, RILEM, Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-94-007-7672-2 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-SIM Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Water – properties and its influence on building materials.
2. Interface between phases, surface tension, adsorption.
3. Heterogeneous dispersions – stability, rheology.
4. Surfactants – plasticizers, foaming and defoaming agents, air entraining agents, shrinkage reducing admixtures.
5. Alkali-activated aluminosilicates – raw materials.
6. Alkali-activators – water glass, properties.
7. Slag – physico chemical properties a mineralogical composition.
8. Alkali-activated slag.
9. Geopolymers.
10. Slag-sulfated cement and slag-lime cement.
Exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the laboratory sessions.
2. Determination of the surface tension of water and solutes of different salts and concrete admixtures.
3. Determination of critical micelle concentration of air entraining agents.
4. Determination of the influence of different plasticizers on the rheological properties of cement paste.
5. Effect of water glass dosage on the properties of alkali-activated slag mortar. Specimen preparation and determination of 7 days strength.
6. Effect of water glass composition (silicate modulus) on the properties of alkali-activated slag mortar. Specimen preparation and determination of 7 days strength.
7. Preparation and testing of metakaolin-based geopolymer properties, determination of the influence of different activator types.
8. Effect of the mixing time on the properties of renovation plasters – bulk density, porosity and strength.
9. Assessment of efflorescence on geopolymer samples with different composition.
10. Credit.