Courses

Building Materials Technology ΙΙ

General

Course Contents

• Concrete: Raw materials, additives and admixtures. Composition study – Grainometric curves.
• Freshly-mixed concrete: Properties, Distribution, Placing, Maintenance, Taking samples. Using
concrete in special conditions.• Hardened concrete: Microstructure. Strengths, Volume stability.
Durability. Compliance Criteria, Acceptance of a Load or Batch of Concrete.• Special Concretes: SelfCompacting, High Strength, Reinforced, Gunite.
•Steel Reinforcement: Production methods, nomenclature, Properties and technical characteristics.
Corrosion. Steel welding. Quality compliance of steel reinforcement. Forming of steel reinforcement
in constructions.
• Concrete and Steel Regulations.

Educational Goals

Upon completing this course students should be able to have an in-depth knowledge of concrete and
steel reinforcement properties and apply concrete and steel regulations and criteria.

General Skills

Autonomously working, Teamwork, Decision making, Exercise criticism and self-criticism,
Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

Teaching Methods

Face to face

Use of ICT means

Powerpoint presentations, E-learning platform for
educational material.

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures26
Practical exercises52
Individual study26
TOTAL104
Total208

Students Evaluation

The final written exam at the end of the semester
comprises: Theoretical questions of knowledge and critical
thinking, problem solving.

Recommended Bibliography

  • [1982]: ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΚΥΡΟΔΕΜΑΤΟΣ, ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ Μ. ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥ
  • [68382921]: ΔΟΜΙΚΑ ΥΛΙΚΑ, ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΣ ΤΡΙΑΝΤΑΦΥΛΛΟΥ
  • [13875]: ΣΚΥΡΟΔΕΜΑ: ΜΙΚΡΟΔΟΜΗ, ΙΔΙΟΤΗΤΕΣ, ΚΑΙ ΥΛΙΚΑ, P. KUMAR MEHTA, PAULO J. M.
    MONTEIRO
  • [In Greek] A. Triantafyllou, (2017). Structural Materials, GOTSIS Publishers.
    [In Greek] P. Kumar Mehta, P.J.M. Monteiro. Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials, Publ.
    McGraw Hill.