Heinz Richner: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2017 |
Name | Mr Heinz Richner |
Address | Institut für Baustoffe (IfB) ETH Zürich, HIF B 60.3 Laura-Hezner-Weg 7 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | +41 44 633 26 42 |
richnerh@ethz.ch | |
Department | Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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101-0615-01L | Materials III | 4 credits | 4P | R. J. Flatt, I. Burgert, P. Lura, H. Richner, F. Wittel | |
Abstract | Introduction into the basic and practical knowledge of important building materials and testing methods. | ||||
Objective | Introduction into the basic and practical knowledge of important building materials and testing methods. | ||||
Content | o Introduction of material testing equipment, with various examples of experiments on metals (tensile behaviour, hardness, bending and impact loading). o Theoretical background and practical aspects of concrete technology: mixture design, casting and setting; determination of mechanical properties. o Properties of bricks and mortar: individual materials and the composite brickwork. Parameters like strength, Young’s modulus, water absorption and thermal conductivity are determined. o Understanding the characteristic properties of wood: anisotropy, hygroscopic behaviour, shrinkage and swelling, and effect of size on strength. Introduction to test-methods for wood and wood-products. o Introduction into the basics of scanning electron microscopy: practical exercises with the Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM). o Introduction to fundamentals of Finite Element Methods and their application in examples. o Introduction to durability of building materials and building structures: assessment of potentials for detecting and locating corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete. | ||||
Lecture notes | For each topic a script will be provided, that can be downloaded under www.ifb.ethz.ch/education |