5 ECTS credits
145 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1009376BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
The content of the course is structured following the material groups, and focuses on the relationship between composition, processing and implementation on one hand, and resulting properties and existing building products on the other hand.
partim Terryn:
Emphasis is put on the introduction of the different materials in building applications. The accent is on the choices one can make in building applications.
- choice of a material, selection of properties, criteria, Ashby diagrams
- material life cycle
- steel and cast iron: production, thermomechanical behaviour, properties, nomenclature
- stainless steels
- aluminium alloys
- copper and zinc
- polymers: thermosets and thermoplastics, thermomechanic behaviour
- glues, adhesion mechanism
- surface treatment of materials
partim Snoeck:
- cement and concrete: components of cement, cement types, hydration mechanism, aggregates, admixtures, concrete design, mechanical and physical properties of concrete
- composite materials
- wood
- construction standards and quality aspects
- guest lectures on glass and/or bitumen
- Lab sessions:
- for the lab session of the part of Herman Terryn the students need to work out a case study about material selection for a selected product or part of the product. The student needs to think about the materials, forming aspects, joining, recycling and price. The students have to write a report and give a presentation.
- for the lab sessions of the part of Didier Snoeck, different compositions of mortar and concrete are manufactured in group. The influence of the choice of cement, of the age, of the amount of water, and of the use of a superplasticizer is investigated and has to be explained. A lab session is foreseen where a fibre cementmatrix composite is manufactured by hand lay-up and tested, as a link with research of the department MEMC. A written group report is asked at the end.
partim Snoeck:
- printed course notes uitgaven VUB
- powerpoint presentation used during the lectures, available on Pointcarré
Terryn:
- slides available on Pointcarré
- book Materials Science and Engineering an introduction auteur William D. Callister, 7th Edition, John Wiley and Son, 2007
Complementary study material:
Illston J.M., Domone P.L.J. 'Construction Materials: Their Nature and Behaviour' 3rd ed E&FN Spon London, 2001.
Ashby M.F. "Materials Selection in Mechanical Design" Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1992
The course can be taught in a hybrid format (online/on-campus).
The student knows what are the typical properties of the different building materials, and have insight why this is so, from the relation between composition, processing and implementation.
The student's ability to make a choice between different building materials, from a critical material reflex.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has a broad fundamental knowledge and understanding of scientific principles and methodology of exact sciences with the specificity of their application to engineering.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has a broad fundamental knowledge and understanding of engineering principles and the ability to apply them to analyse key engineering processes and to investigate new and emerging technologies.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has a broad fundamental knowledge and understanding of integrated design methods according to customer and user needs with the ability to apply and integrate knowledge and understanding of other engineering disciplines to support the own specialisation engineering one.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can define, classify, formulate and solve engineering problems, identify the constraints and is able to delimit and formulate the tasks in order to submit these to a critical examination and to check the solutions for their sustainability and social relevance.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can monitor, interpret and apply the results of analysis and modelling in order to bring about continuous improvement.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can apply an horizontal broadening and vertical deepening of the discipline within a continuously changing society and industrial context, in a multi-disciplinary environment.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can use and evaluate information of technical literature and other information sources.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can correctly report on design results in the form of a technical report or in the form of a paper.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can present and defend results in a scientifically sound way, using contemporary communication tools.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can reason in a logical, abstract and critical way.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can conduct open dialogues, discussions and negotiations, and can write scientific reports and to hold presentations using the most modern ICT technologies.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences can work in team, shows creativity and entrepreneurship, and has intellectual mobility.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has consciousness of the ethical, social, environmental and economic context of the work and strives for sustainable solutions to engineering problems including safety aspects.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has a critical attitude towards one’s own results and those of others.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has acquired the tools for knowledge collection towards life-long learning.
The Bachelor in Engineering Sciences has more advanced fundamental knowledge and understanding of the behaviour of structures, construction materials, soil and fluids (Civil Engineering) and can apply this knowledge to solve basic engineering problems.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
partim Terryn (40%):
- Oral examination on theory: 2/3
- Lab sessions report and eventual oral explanation: 1/3
partim Snoeck (60%):
- oral examination about theory: 1/2
- oral examination about lab work: 1/6
- written lab report: 1/3
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Engineering: Civil Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering: Verkort traject (only offered in Dutch)