Course detail

Optimization of Building Materials Use

FAST-NJA041Acad. year: 2024/2025

The multicriterial deciding process, commercial-technical services of building materials manufacturers. Demands for materials for vertical structures, technological criteria and optimal state. Materials for walls. Horizontal structures: demands for material, variants of materials and the analysis of their criteria. Roofs: qualification of function and material variants of roof cover. Classification, purpose and criteria of surface treatment and the optimization of material variants. Materials for external drainage, concrete tile pavement. Dynamic calculation of mass production of building materials, energetic demands. Evaluation of building materials from the point of view of environment, the solution of handling and recycling of waste materials. The influence of radon and measures to decrease the activity of the object.
The part of lectures is accompanied with exercises, which have partially a calculation character.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge in the branch of Material Engineering.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Comprehension of profound principles of building materials composition in the building work, interaction of their properties in scope of the system, which fulfils the demands on mechanical bearing capacity and stability of structures, hygienic criteria, thermal protection of buildings and sound insulation when loaded by noise. Composition of aims and evaluation of the optimal material arrangement under multi-criteria demands, environmental questions in the use of building materials

The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring knowledge on profound principles of building materials composition in the building work, interaction of their properties in scope of the system, which fulfils the demands on mechanical bearing capacity and stability of structures, hygienic criteria, thermal protection of buildings and sound insulation when loaded by noise.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

COWAN, Henry J. a Peter R. SMITH, The Science and Technology of Building Materials, Van Norstrand New York 1988 (CS)
NOVÁK, J. a kol., Kontrola jakosti ve stavebnictví, ČVUT Praha 1996 (CS)
Pytlík, P., Stavební materiály v pozemních stavbách, Nakladatelství CERM, Brno 200, ISBN 8085867141 (CS)
Svoboda, L. a kol., Stavební hmoty, JAGA Bratislava 2004 (CS)
Pytlík, P., Vlastnosti a užití stavebních výrobků, VUTIUM 1998 (CS)

Recommended reading

ČSN 730540 Tepelná ochrana budov (části 1 - 4), Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, Praha (CS)
JANÍČEK, Přemysl a Jiří MAREK, Expertní inženýrství v systémovém pojetí, Grada Praha 2014 (CS)
Vyhláška č. 268/2009 Sb. O technických požadavcích na stavby (ve znění pozdejších předpisů) (CS)
Zákon č. 283/2021 Sb. Stavební zákon (ve znění pozdějších předpisů) (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIM Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction into problems of building products use optimization. 2. Problems of quality control and description of general properties of building materials and building structures. 3. The process of optimization – mathematical model. 4. Demanded technical properties of building materials and building structures. Durability of building materials – general principles. 5. Vertical building structures. 6. Horizontal building structures. 7. Roof structures. 8. Surface treatment of building structures. 9. Products for external surfaces and external draining. 10. Environment, the problems of building material recycling. Energetic demands of building structures.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jiří Zach, Ph.D.
Ing. Vítězslav Novák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction, introduction to the practice and the conditions for granting credit. 2. Examples of optimization, multi-criteria optimization problem formulation. 3. Formulation of multiobjective tasks with the relevant performance requirements of building materials. 4. Decomposition of objectives, setting the objective function and restrictive conditions. 5. Build decision-making matrix, calculating the weighting of the criteria. 6. Decision making under conditions of uncertainty, the application of Bayes' criteria. 7. Saatyho solution matrix method of quantitative pairwise comparison. 8. Other ways of solving matrix optimization matrix. 9. Assessment of the results, verify the applicability of building materials for the intended purpose. 10. Check individual assignments students and credit.