Course detail

Building Materials

FAST-BIA001Acad. year: 2025/2026

Basic information about structure, basic properties of building materials and their use as building materials.
Testing methods of physical-mechanical properties and durability with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring.
Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, high molecular matters, bitumens, insulating materials, composite materials.
Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials with individual tasks for individual students including elaboration of records about the tests.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Barbara Kucharczyková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Testing (SZK)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Plane geometry, stereometry, goniometric functions, units of physical quantities and their transfers, the fundamental laws of physics, mechanics of bodies.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Acquainting and practising of building material selected basic properties,the ability to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.

Basic information about constitution, basic properties of building materials and their use as building materials.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ABbzAB36xjL_DVjN_eYcSE_okiSy1dLa - Readings (EN)
ADÁMEK, J.; KOUKAL, J.; STEHLÍK, M. English-Czech Handbook of Building Materials Properties and Testing. PC-DIR spol. s. r. o. Brno, 1995. p. 1-106. ISBN: 80-214-0686-0 (EN)
ADÁMEK, Jiří: Stavební materiály. CERM, sro Brno, 1996. ISBN 978-80-2140-631-3. (CS)
Dalibor, Vojtěch: Materiály a jejich mezní stavy, Praha 2020, ISBN 978-80-7080-741-5 (CS)
DUGGAL, S. K. Building Materials. New Age, 4th revised edition, 2012. p. 1-612. ISBN – 13: 978-8122433791 (EN)
EVERETT, A.; BARRITT, C. M. H. Mitchells Materials. Longman Scientific and Technical, 5th edition, 2014. p. 1-272. ISBN: 9780582219236 (EN)
STEHLÍK, M.; BÍLEK, V. Building Materials. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 2003. p. 1-171. ISBN: 80-214-2544-X (EN)
VARGHESE, P. C. Building Materials. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd, 2nd revised edition, 2015. p. 1-283. ISBN – 13: 978-8120350915 (EN)
SVOBODA, Luboš: Stavební hmoty . Jaga group, sro, Bratislava, 2009. ISBN 978-80-8076-057-1,  http://people.fsv.cvut.cz/~svobodal/sh/ (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPA-SI Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's

    specialization VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPC-MI Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKC-SI Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Barbara Kucharczyková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, good laboratory practice.
  • 2. Structure and properties of building materials.
  • 3. Determination of properties, testing and determination of properties of building materials.
  • 4. Building rock, aggregate and rock products.
  • 5. Binders and mortar I.
  • 6. Binders and mortar II.
  • 7. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products I.
  • 8. Concrete, special types of concrete and concrete products II.
  • 9. Silicates, silicate products and glass.
  • 10. Timber, timber products and construction.
  • 11. Steel, metals and non-ferrous metals.
  • 12. Polymers , other building materials, materials and products.
  • 13. Asphalts, tars and road construction materials.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Barbara Kucharczyková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction into laboratory practice.
  • 2. Physical properties of aggregate.
  • 3. Geometric and physical-mechanical properties of aggregate.
  • 4. Properties of fresh binders.
  • 5. Properties of fresh mortars.
  • 6. Properties of hardened mortars and binders.
  • 7. Physical properties of concrete and rock.
  • 8. Physical and mechanical properties of rock and concrete.
  • 9. Properties of silicates and brickmaking products.
  • 10. Properties of timber.
  • 11. Properties of steel and other metals.
  • 12. Properties of polymers.
  • 13. Final summary, credit.