Concrete - Properties, Testing, and Important Information
Beton – Properties and Testing Part I and II is offered every winter semester.
Content
- Concrete structure, transport processes, concrete corrosion
- Binding materials and concretes for special applications, such as textile concrete, self-compacting concrete, solid concrete, and fiber reinforced concrete
- Fresh concrete, rheology
- Designing a concrete formula, concrete manfacture, concrete testing, evaluation of results
- Post-treatment of concrete
- Fracture traits of building materials
- Nondestructive testing processes
- Concrete lifecycle
- Environmental compatability of building materials
- Supplemental: excursions to construction sites, building material manufacturers
Learning Objectives
- Application limits of concrete
- Composing expert reports
- Presentation technique
Admissions Requirements
- Definition of building materials properties
- Stress-strain curves of building materials
- Statistical evaluation of test results
- Differential euqations
Grading
– Homework throughout the semester, tests, reports
- Attention, examination modality changed: Composition of the grade: 30% from Homework throughout the semester and 70% from exam result.
ATTENTION!!!!! Info for exam repeaters!
Students who have already registered for the exam Concrete - Properties and Examination Part I and Part II in a previous semester and have not passed, are in the pending examination procedure and have the last opportunity in the current WS 21/22 to write the exam according to the old module description (100% exam). Please contact immediately
Gabriele Foerster
Institute of Building Materials Research ibac
Phone: +49 241 80-96761
foerster@ibac.rwth-aachen.de
Recommended Literature
– Concrete calendar (issue by ibac)
– Brameshuber: Selbstverdichtender Beton, Verlag Bau+Technik