Course detail
Technology and Machines in Building Industry
FSI-QSV Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course deals with the technology of mining and processing of stones, gravel and sand. Types of preparing plants are presented. Also dealt is the technology production of mortars, plaster, lime, cement. The course focuses also on the production lines for non-watered and watery method of cement production., and on the technology production: brick ceramic, fire-resistant ceramic, stone ware, building ceramic, hygienic ceramic, earthen ware. Technology of mortars, concretes, building elements production is also included.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Successful completion of the course is conditional on the knowledge of technical mechanics, physics, higher mathematics, machine parts and their mechanisms, physics of materials and principles of electrical engineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Examination test student’s knowledge and skills, and the ability to apply them in practice.
Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the course supervisor.
Aims
The objective is for students to have an overview of technologies in building industry, their development and sequences to design and exploitation machines.
Students will be made familiar with the technical and chemical procedures in building industries, and learn how to set the flow-sheets as a basis for development records.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Characteristics and dismemberment of building materials.
2. Fundamental physical and mechanical properties of building materials.
3. Inorganic building materials.
4. Technology extractions and processing of stones and gravel-sands.
5. Technology of mortars, plaster, lime, cement production.
6. Technology of cement production.
7. Ceramic products – heavy clayware.
8. Ceramic products – fine ceramics.
9. Asbestos-cement products and replacements. Mortars, concretes.
10. Basics and principles of DEM analyses and their applications.
11. Basics of DEM analysis modelling when applied in Altair's EDEM simulation program
12. Building elements – technology production. Sealing materials.
13. Recycling of building materials, special technology.