High temperature laboratory
The high temperature laboratory is focused on determination of thermal parameters of building materials exposed to extreme temperatures up to 1800 °C. The apparent thermal conductivity along with the specific heat capacity (non-adiabatic method) are the most important parameters det…
Materials characterization laboratory
The laboratory for materials characterization is focused on determination of complex properties of building materials. The special attention is paid to physical and microstructural properties of building materials, such as basic physical properties, moisture properties, thermal prop…
Computer simulation laboratory
The laboratory of computational simulations is located in room D-s160a. The core of the laboratory is formed by a computer cluster that is composed of 14 high performance computers DELL Precision T5600. Each computer is equipped with two Intel Xeon E5 processors (2 × 8 cores) 3.3 GH…
Electrical and acoustical laboratory
Electrical and acoustical research laboratory (D-s162) is used for determination of electrical and acoustical properties of building materials and structural elements. Electrical measurements are aimed at determination of DC/AC electrical properties of building materials in 2-probe…
Biological laboratory
The biological laboratory (D1008) is focused on experiments with living organisms. In the laboratory, mainly terrestrial model organisms, such as plants and small soil invertebrates (testing of building materials and their wastes), and aquatic model organisms - algae, cyanobacteria,…
Porosimetric laboratory
The laboratory is equipped with mercury intrusion porosimeter (MIP) Pascal 140+440 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and nitrogen adsorption device Sorptomatic 1990 (Thermo Scientific). These devices enable to characterize the pore sestem of solids in range of pore size 3 nm to 100 um.
Chemical laboratory
Chemical laboratory serves for the assessment of chemical, structural and physical properties of building materials and base materials for their production. In laboratory, development and testing of new building materials is done. Moreover, materials already applied in building indu…
Samples preparation and students laboratory
Students laboratory (rooms D 1049, D 1050, D 1051, D 1052, D 1053) is used mostly for the teaching purposes and for the samples preparation. Laboratory lessons in courses Building Materials in Czech and English languages (123SH01, 123SHMA, 123SHR, 123BM01), Material Engineering (12…
Thermal analysis and calorimetry laboratory
Laboratory of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (D 1065) serves to measure the development of reaction heat and carry out thermal analysis. Thermal analysis is conducted by means of differential scanning calorimeter which allows observing changes in tested samples over time and tempe…