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New lightweight floors with secondary raw materials
Tůmová, Eva ; Bydžovský, Jiří (referee) ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Kolář,, Karel (referee) ; Drochytka, Rostislav (advisor)
The thesis deals with the development of new type of lightweight floors based on secondary raw materials. In the introduction, the current knowledge in the field of lightweight building materials, especially screeds and lightweight porous concrete, is presented. The thesis describes brief history of production of aerated concrete and its development up to the present. Further, the thesis describes the procedure of design and testing of new lightweight materials for use in floors. The proposed recipe has been thoroughly tested and the best combination of components for use in lightweight porous concrete floor screed has been selected. The thesis also examines the microstructure of the material being developed. The main result of the dissertation is the developed product, which is already used in practice and is produced and sold on the market as part of the system of lightweight building materials.
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Research and development of progressive protective equipments for horizontal construction using waste materials
Hodná, Jana ; Bydžovský, Jiří (referee) ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Dohnálek,, Pavel (referee) ; Drochytka, Rostislav (advisor)
Large amount of different types of industrial wastes are still not re-use as secondary raw materials in industry. The work deals with finding a new way how to use secondary raw materials, especially the possibilities of using recycled glass from different sources as a fillers in the polymer protective materials development for horizontal structures. The main task of this work is to develop a material with the desired physic - mechanical properties and further verifying the influence of particle shape on their chemical resistance. Result of this work will find advanced protective materials using secondary raw materials as alternatives to be in terms of economic and ecological efficiency replacement for conventional products.
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Study of the dependence of concrete composition on the values of elasticity modules
Křížová, Klára ; Kolář,, Karel (referee) ; Adámek, Jiří (referee) ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Hela, Rudolf (advisor)
The modulus of elasticity is one of the basic characteristics of concrete defining elastic deformation of concrete and it plays a significant role in the static design of structures. Due to current trends in concrete technology, offering a wide variability in the proposals of the composition of concrete, there are changes not only in strength characteristics but also in the modulus of elasticity of concrete. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the dependence of different compositions on modulus of elasticity of concrete. Design of concrete composition is prepared with respect to the use of different types of cement, mineral admixtures, types and fractions of aggregates. The work is mainly focused on the determination of static modulus of elasticity in compression with the addition of dynamic modules. In the first phase determined modulus of elasticity are compared with tabulated values according to Eurocode 2, which are derived for the specific strength class of concrete. Part of this work is the compilation of the main technological aspects of concrete which can favorably affect the modulus of elasticity.
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH A HIGHER RESISTANCE TO HIGH TEMPERATURES
Válek, Jaroslav ; Durica,, Tibor (referee) ; Kolář,, Karel (referee) ; Sitek,, Libor (referee) ; Bodnárová, Lenka (advisor)
Concrete has many advantageous properties as regards resistance to fire. It is non-flammable and it has a low thermal conductivity. However, concrete structures, which are not designed for resistance against fire, show significant damage after heating. In particular, the explosive flaking with the consequence of weakening the reinforced concrete cross-section and exposing the steel reinforcement to the temperatures higher than critical temperature of reinforcement. There are only a few possible measures of preventing or mitigating the effects temperature load used. Ways of protection can be divided into two systems: active and passive. Active systems are designed to ensure the greatest possible reduction of temperatures the concrete is exposed to. Passive systems directly resist to high temperatures and fire. Design of composition of concrete with the aim of higher resistance to exposition to high temperatures belongs among the passive systems. A part of the work focuses on summary searches of the problems of concrete and reinforced concrete structures exposed to high temperatures and fire. The goal of the work is defining requirements for cement matrix based composite material and its design ensuring the highest possible resistance to high temperatures or direct fire.
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Economic aspects of environmental use of building materials based on secondary raw materials.
Ťažký, Tomáš ; Durica,, Tibor (referee) ; Sedlmajer, Martin (referee) ; Nosek,, Karel (referee) ; Kulísek, Karel (advisor)
The disses thesis is focused on usage of secondary raw materials from the electric power industry, specifically fly ash as a component for the building industry, concentrated on concrete. Two main streams are covered, environmental and economical. Reasons, which led to focus on the selected subject are coming mainly from the scarcity and availability of high-quality mineral resources, environmental pressure for usage of industry byproduct, reducing emissions and economical pressure to reduce production cost, especially raw materials. The main purpose of the work was to verify the possibility of increasing the usability of fly ash as a mineral additive in the technology of concrete production with materials retrieved from coal fired power plants and applying mechanical activation of fly ash. The main goal of the experimental part of work was to demonstrate improvement of fresh and hardened concrete properties as a main condition to support economic efficiency of mechanical activated fly ash. Base on previous facts the methodology was covering two main areas, the experimental and the assessment. Relatively large sets of tests were performed, using a wide range of tested high temperature fly ash and fluidized bed combustion fly ash granulometrically treated, by mixing and grinding. Results of the testing confirmed focused parameters for concrete and mortar mechanical properties, total economical efficiency of the targeted solution and the subject of the dissertation. In the experiment section has been retrieved valuable findings contributing to the overall knowledge of the faculty, also for the practical application. The results of the tests confirmed the achievement of the planned target parameters, both in terms of physical and mechanical properties of experienced mortars and concretes, as well as the overall economic efficiency of the proposed design and the topic of the disses thesis. Within the experimental work, valuable professional knowledge and benefits w
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Determining the possibilities of increasing binding potencial of fly ash for the usage in cement composites
Jančaříková, Denisa ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Klečka,, Tomáš (referee) ; Kulísek, Karel (referee) ; Hela, Rudolf (advisor)
The deliberate use of fly ash in the production of concrete has been used for decades, but recent trends tend to maximise its utility properties. These are different types of activations from chemical through thermal to mechanical. An alkaline agent is added to chemical activation which, by etching the glass structure of the ash grain, promotes its reactivity. Mechanical activation is mainly focused on granulometry and particle size distribution curve. In this thesis three mechanical activation methods are compared: separation the ash into fractions by grain size, mixing these fractions to achieve the ideal particle size distribution curve and grinding. Four types of ash were collected from the Tušimice power plant – ash from individual electrostatic separators (I, II and III) and SESYP ash which represents the total volume of production. Ash from individual separators differ not only in the particle size but also in the chemical composition and reactivity. Better properties generally have smaller ash particles. This is used by mechanical activation by sorting. When mixing the individual ash fractions, the aim is to achieve an optimal grading curve of either the ash itself or the fine particle set in the concrete. In this work, ash is only used to calculate the mixing ratio and the grading curve according to Funk was selected as optimal. The last compared option of activation was grinding ash. Grinding was carried out in an industrial mill for 15, 30, 45, 60 and 75 minutes. The efficiency of the modified ash was monitored for cement paste in terms of rheology and for concrete in terms of consistency, strength and durability. Based on the results we can say that mechanical activation by sorting is suitable for special purposes, but it’s necessary to realise that coarser ash fractions remain unused. When mixing the fractions to ensure matrix density, the efficiency was shown mainly on the durability characteristics. Grinding cause positive effect.
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Development of new types of composites for concrete rehabilitation with increased protection reinforcement
Taranza, Luboš ; Durica,, Tibor (referee) ; Dohnálek,, Pavel (referee) ; Bydžovský, Jiří (referee) ; Drochytka, Rostislav (advisor)
Around the world there is a great number of reinforced concrete structures, who´s life cycle, for which they were designed, is significantly shortened due to action of various aggressive environments, or due to defects created during the construction process. (i.e. insufficient steel reinforcement cover depth). One of the most common causes of problems in reinforced concrete structures is corrosion of steel reinforcement. It is necessary to repair structures degraded in this fashion and return them to their original state. We made a unique polymercement concrete repair system was developed with value added. Corrosion inhibitors, including the newly developed, are implemented into its polymercement matrix, which significantly limit the corrosive processes in all new materials. The principle of proposed solution is application of repair system on a corrosion damaged structure, and then the active substances in the repair material will penetrate into substrate concrete and protect corroded steel reinforcement. Another value added is the application of recycled raw materials into the proposed materials, which has indisputable environmental effect and simultaneously allows for improvement of some properties of the repair materials. Further was developed a new method for detecting corrosion inhibitors in concrete.
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Architectural concrete
Novosad, Petr ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Dulenčín, Juraj (referee) ; Klečka,, Tomáš (referee) ; Hela, Rudolf (advisor)
In the development of concrete structures and its finishes we are constantly looking for new ways to highlight the aesthetic value of the concrete. With all the possibilities of shapes, textures and colours, an architectural concrete in the hands of an architect and designer becomes a material, which can be used to express different individual and specific ideas. It is necessary to recognize and cope with these possibilities, but also the limits, which determine the properties of concrete as the proper design and implementation creates excellent finishes that are otherwise inaccessible to other materials and technologies. The theoretical part includes an extensive summary carries out a research on issues of architectural concrete and its production. From this research comes a new definition of architectural concrete and the newly redesigned and determined classes of architectural concrete with respect to the continuous development of technologies and production possibilities, rendering and surfacing. The aim of the thesis is to verify the possibilities of producing quality architectural concrete and additional treatment of the surface with respect to the desired aesthetic quality.
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Study of ettringite stability depending on external conditions
Pekárková, Jana ; Brauner,, Josef (referee) ; Durica,, Tibor (referee) ; Bílek,, Vlastimil (referee) ; Gazdič, Dominik (advisor)
The doctoral thesis was focused on the study of thermodynamic stability of ettringite. Ettringite was first prepared in two different ways and then exposed in chosen environments. Furthermore, the stability of ettringite in interaction with calciumsilicates was investigated. As ettringite can be formed as a hydration product of fluidized bed fly ash, the properties of Portland fly ash cement in comparison with Portland cement and Portland slag cement were investigated at the end of the thesis.
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Influence of fine particles granulometry on the physico-mechanical properties of concrete
Louda, Pavel ; Klečka,, Tomáš (referee) ; Ďurica,, Tibor (referee) ; Hubáček, Adam (referee) ; Hela, Rudolf (advisor)
The theoretical part describes the properties of fine-grained admixtures and the ways how these admixtures modify concrete properties. There are also described ways to assemble grain curves in the range 0-1000 m. The practical part describes the properties of all the concrete components used for the tests. From the admixtures and cement, the individual grain curves were compiled. Curves were assembled in the first stage manually by using MS Excel. Subsequently, a simple program was developed based on the knowledge of composing grain curves, which automatically compiles the grain curve according to the given limits. The maximum cement replacement was set at 25% by weight. The physical and mechanical properties of the graded curves thus established were first verified on mortar mixtures where the workability, bulk density and strength were verified at the age 7, 28 and 90 days. In addition, the porosity of cement cement with mercury porosimetry has been verified for selected recipes. The acquired knowledge was subsequently applied to the concrete in the laboratory. Here the maximum cement compensation was set at 30%. In particular, concrete consistency over time, air content in the concrete and compresive strength of concrete at the age 3, 7, 28 and 90 days were verified. Verification was also carried out in practice on the optimization of self-compacting concrete. Mechanical properties have been retained for optimized recipe but there were financial savings and CO2 emissions reductions compare with the original recipe.
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