General description of the course:

The main content of the subject include:

• define the concepts of Building Materials Engineering -BME, taking into account the role and tasks of the BME and BME distinguishing features from other engineering materials.
• Submit feedback for sustainable development: man-material-technology-building-ecology as a determinant of the subject of the BME.
• Define material model: composition-structure-property-application.
• E3 = energy-ecology-economics as boundary conditions for engineering activities and the principle of sustainable development in relation to the construction.
• Technical characteristics of building materials and usability functions for building materials.
• Thermal considerations in the design of buildings
• Representation of the types of steel connections construction and glass/metal facades
• Division of building composites and control their properties, an example of cement-based composites
• Characteristics of cement binders and composites on the basis of this binder, the representation of the possibilities the design of microstructure of cement paste by active mineral additives
• The method of the description of the microstructure of building materials; the use of electron microscopy and image analysis, stereology and fractography.
• Corrosion and the question of compatibility and the design principles of repair, surface protection and strengthening of concrete structures
• Methods of diagnostics construction