Course detail

Experimental Methods of Construction Survey

FAST-CI055Acad. year: 2023/2024

New methods of verifying the reliability of engineer construction proposal. Testing the signs of reliability of ready constructions during lifetime. The reliability scheme of building structure and it’s modeling. Analysis and physical models, laws of model homothety for static and dynamic tasks.
Arrangement of model tests, ways of loading and methods of reading the static and dynamic quantities. Determination of mistakes of the read quantities, metrology.
Non-contact methods of deformation reading, digital analysis of image and it’s treatment. Principles of fraction mechanics. Measurement of parameters for tension determination.
Measurement on realized structures and comparison of results with model measurement. Automation of measurement.
Seminary paper concerns elaborating and evaluating the results of measurement from the laboratory practice. Laboratory practice with individual tasks for individual students.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Pavel Schmid, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Testing (SZK)

Entry knowledge

Physical-mechanical and fracture properties of building materials, basic methods of testing and diagnosis of structures, resources for numerical analysis of structures, theory of statistics and probability.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Acquiring of the basic orientation in the field of experimental analysis of building structures and structures elements in relationship on analytics modelling within stochastic approach.
Student will have better orientation in the field of experimental analysis of building structures and structures elements in relationship on analytics modelling within stochastic approach.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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)
CIKRLE, Petr a kol.: NDT zkoušení ve stavebnictví. Ústav stavebního zkušebnictví FAST VUT v Brně, 2010. (CS)
HOLICKÝ, Milan a kol.: Zásady navrhování stavebních konstrukcí. Informační centrum ČKAIT, s.r.o., 2007. ISBN 978-80-87093-27-6. (CS)
HOLICKÝ, Milan: Zásady ověřování spolehlivosti a životnosti staveb. Vydavatelství ČVUT, 1998. PLU 2101. (CS)
SCHMID, Pavel a kol.: Základy zkušebnictví. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 2001. (CS)
SVOBODA, Luboš a kolektiv: Stavební hmoty. Jaga group, s.r.o., 2007. ISBN 80-8076-007-1. [http://people.fsv.cvut.cz/~svobodal/sh/] (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Pavel Schmid, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Introduction – experimental analysis of structures and members. Reliability scheme and modeling of structures. Mathematical and physical models of structure behavior. Cracking properties of cement composites. Experimental methods of determination of cracking properties. Experimental load tests. Methodology of long-term monitoring of bridge structures. Methodology of experimental verification of reological properties of concrete in laboratory and in-situ. Magneto-elastic measurement of stresses in prestressing reinforcement. Sensor calibration. Experimental and analytic means of time dependent analysis of structures.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Pavel Schmid, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Experimental methods for determining fracture properties of materials. Experimental load tests. Methods of loading, sensing methods of static and dynamic variables. Methods of measurement of relative strain - strain gages. Methods of experimental verification of the rheological properties of concrete in laboratory conditions. Experimental methods for verifying the reliability of the additional reinforcement elements supporting structures. Method flat presses in the diagnosis of masonry structures. Load testing of ceramic ceiling panels CSD HURDIS. Methodology load test segment structure. Application of methods of non-contact measurement of strains in a tensile test. Monitoring the formation and development of cracks.