Course detail

The essentials of building testing

FAST-0I5Acad. year: 2019/2020

Requirements for building structures according to the EU instruction about building products and the system of tests of materials, segments and constructions in regulated and non-regulated sphere.
Division of tests into certificate tests and checking tests, destructive and non-destructive. Regression relations and statistic evaluation of results.
The basis of constructions reliability, loading and its impacts, conditions of reliability,limit states and probability of failure. Processes and methods for the solution of reliability problems, designing of constructions reliability of systems and application of methods for reliability determination. Essentials of photoelastic measuring and measuring on models. Essentials of quality control methods.
Essentials non-destructive testing methods and their application in laboratories (methods of hardness measurement, ultrasonic and resonant measurement, radiating crack detection). Tensometric measuring and load tests.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Department

Institute of Building Testing (SZK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of mathematics and physics obtained from secondary school, knowledge of building materials properties

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Introductory lecture – NDT methods overview
2. Concrete static moduli – their determination
3. Tensiometric measurement
4. Loadings test
5. Material hardness
6. Ultrasonic impulse method
7. Concrete specimen resonant tests
8. Magnetic indicators used for reinforcement cover and location detection
9. Radiometric determination of weight density and moisture
10. Radiographic determination of reinforcement location and cross cection
11. Radon measurement
12. Other non–destructive testing methods overview
13. Quality, controlling and testing plans

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Anton, O.: Základy zkušebnictví. Návody do cvičení.. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno 2002
Schmid, P.: Základy zkušebnictví. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno 2001

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer