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Experimental Laboratory Methods
FAST-BJA011Acad. year: 2023/2024
The course is a review of routine and special laboratory methods and instrumentation used in the silicate industry, with a focus on the fields of ceramics, refractories and mortars and the field of technology in the evaluation of materials in terms of their suitability in the process and the assessment of performance of finished products and degradation construction materials.
Students will improve their knowledge in the implementation of physical-mechanical laboratory tests and become familiar with special methods such as high pressure mercury porosimetry, X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Discusses the principles and methods of measuring the rheology of suspensions and tests, viscosity measurements of heat capacity and heat of reaction calorimetry, peculiarities of measuring pH in the hydrating cements, as well as the different nature of glass stability in acidic and alkaline environments, corrosion processes, the protection of steel reinforcement in concrete.
Lectures are supplemented by measurements on these laboratory and testing facilities in the exercise.
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The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring knowledge and overview of common and special laboratory methods and equipment used in silicate industry, mainly in the production of construction substances and components.
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Basic literature
Goncalves M. C., Margarido F.: Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering. Springer, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-319-34841-4 (EN)
Pavlíková M. Keppert M.: Chemie stavebních materiálů. Česká technika-nakladatelství ČVUT, 2009. ISBN: 978-80-01-04237-3 (CS)
Šašek L. a kol.: Laboratorní metody v oboru silikátů. SNTL Praha, 1981. ISBN 80-7252-057-11, (CS)
Recommended reading
Lach, V., Daňková, M: Mikrostruktura stavebních látek. SNTL, 1999. (CS)
Vondráček Vlastimil: Metody studia struktury. Technická Universita Ostrava, 2012. ISBN 978-80 (CS)
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