Course detail

Testing and Technology

FAST-BIA002Acad. year: 2025/2026

The content of the subject is divided into two specialized sections:
1) Testing in civil engineering and
2) Technology of concrete and silicate production.
Ad 1)
Requirements for building materials according to the EU directive on building products and the system of tests of materials, segments and constructions.
Division of tests into certificate tests and checking tests, destructive and non-destructive.
Regression relations and statistic evaluation of results.
Essentials of non-destructive testing methods and their application in laboratories (electro-acoustic, magnetic and hardness non-destructive measurement methods).
Radiometric methods of the detection of reinforcement location, volume mass and moisture of bulk materials and radon in buildings.
Ad 2)
Technology of concrete production. Types and components of concrete.
Fresh concrete processing, concrete hardening and curing.
Basic findings about production and usage of silicate products.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Dalibor Kocáb, 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 with physical principles of destructive and non–destructive testing principles, determination of the possibilities of particular testing methods within building structures surveys, the ability of practice realizing of particular testing methods. Principles within design and produce of fresh concrete, concrete types and its testing, properties and possibilities of ceramic products using.

Students will be able to determinate the possibilities of particular testing methods within building structures surveys, the ability of practice realizing of particular testing methods. Principles within design and produce of fresh concrete, concrete types and its testing, properties and possibilities of ceramic products using.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K-C12mEHqKc1rNc2V-PS_l_6pkqpmerX - Moduli (EN)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wntb8Xryq4JOMAs-RJltSGloG8rPoP89 - Readings (EN)
BODNÁROVÁ, L.; SOKOLÁŘ, R.; STEHLÍK, M.; KOCÁB, D.; POSPÍCHAL, O. Testing and Technology BI02_M01, M02, M03. Testing and Technology. VUT Brno. Brno: VUT Brno, 2011. p. 1-182 (EN)
Durability of Concrete: Design and Construction, Mark Alexander, Arnon Bentur, Sidney Mindess, CRC Press, 2017 (EN)
Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete, V.M. Malhotra, Nicholas J. Carino, CRC Press, 2003 (EN)
HINKS, J. and COOK, G. The Technology of Building Defects. Routledge, 1997. p. 1-376. ISBN – 13: 978-0419197805 (EN)
Nedestruktivní zkoušení materiálů a konstrukcí, Bernard kopec a kol., CERM, 2008 (CS)
Non-destructive Characterization of Materials VII, Anthony L. Bartos, Robert E. Green Jr., Clayton O. Ruud, TTP, 1996 (EN)
Properties of Concrete 5th Edition, Adam M. Neville, Trans-Atlantic Publications, 2012 (EN)
RANSOM, W. H. Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avidance. Routledge, 2002. p. 1-192. ISBN-13: 978-0419142706 (EN)
Technologie betonu, Petr Pytlík, VUTIUM Brno, 2000 (CS)
Testing of Concrete in Structures: Fourth Edition, John H. Bungey, Steve Millard, Michael Grantham, ‎CRC Press, 2018 (EN)
Základy zkušebnictví, Pavel Schmid, CERM, Brno, 2004 (CS)
Zkušebnictví a technologie – cvičebnice, Kolektiv autorů, CERM, Brno, 2022 (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Rudolf Hela, CSc.
doc. Ing. Petr Cikrle, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Pavel Schmid, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Radomír Sokolář, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Karel Dvořák, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Misák, Ph.D.
Ing. Jaromír Láník, Ph.D.
Ing. Dalibor Kocáb, Ph.D.
Ing. Richard Dvořák, Ph.D.
Ing. Dominik Lisztwan

Syllabus

1. Division of concrete types. Concrete components. Concrete composition, methods of calculation.
2. Rheology of fresh concrete. Processing of fresh concrete, formwork system and molds. Compaction of fresh concrete.
3. Hardening of concrete, accelerated hardening of concrete, concreting in winter, curing of concrete.
4. Mechanical properties of concrete, deformational characteristics, water tightness, permeability. Durability of concrete.
5. General and theoretical principles of silicate production.
6. Introduction - overview of testing methods.
7. Measurement of selected properties of building materials.
8. Tensometry.
9. Electroacoustic methods.
10. Dynamic and static moduli of elasticity of concrete.
11. Load tests.
12. Radon.
13. Radiometry in building construction.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introductory laboratory practice.
2. Design of concrete composition.
3. Manufacture of concrete according to prescribed composition.
4. Tests on raw and adapted materials.
5. Tests on burned silicate fragments.
6. Quality control of concrete.
7. Tensometric measurement of stress of the material of construction.
8. Dynamic moduli of elasticity.
9. Static moduli of concrete.
10. Study load test of a bridge model.
11. Determination of radon content.
12. Radiometric determination of volume mass and moisture.
13. Final summary, credit.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Testing and Technology

Type of course unit