Ing. Jakub Hodul took part in an internship at the University of Malta, Faculty of the Built Environment, under the Erasmus + program. The training was focused mainly on research and development of polymer-cement mortars with different content of crystallization additive in order to increase their long-term durability and impermeability to aggressive media. In the framework of research work, the basic physico-mechanical properties were determined. With sub-samples, further research will take place at the AdMaS Center. In particular, it will be a study of microstructure. In the future, further cooperation with the University of Malta is expected, especially in the field of development and research, to increase the long-term durability of concrete, and also to use waste and secondary raw materials to improve environmental aspects.

A story of  the origin  of sand in the unique  wine cellars in  New Saldorf was  broadcasted  in one  of the tv sessions in  channel CT 2, called Folklorika, on 29 September 2018 . According to the legend, the sand was collected and sent off to Vienna, where it was used to build houses. AdMaS researchers from RG1 surveyed this sand at the request of local winemakers and spoke in the program about their research.
The whole story can be viewed at:

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1102732990-folklorika/318291310040007-pisek-pro-viden

 

Representatives of the AdMaS Center, headed by the Director, JUDr. Ing. Zdeněk Dufek, Ph.D. and prof. Ing. Jan Kudrnou, CSc., will take part in the 26th Road Conference which will take place in Ostrava at the Clarion Congress Ostrava Hotel and at the Vitkovice Arena Athletic Hall on October 17 and 18, 2018.

The center will again have its stand where it will promote its activities and establish possible future cooperation with colleagues in the field. More information at:

https://www.silnicnikonference.cz/2018/pozvanka-na-silnicni-konferenci/

 

Researchers at the MSM Research Center, AdMaS, organized a foreign excursion to manufacturing plants and universities in Hungary and Serbia for students of the “M” field of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology.

Two technical universities were visited within the framework of a foreign working trip, where both our own research and research projects and  tasks were presented. The question of the cooperation of individual workplaces, including the possibility of working stays, was discussed.

At the Technical and Economic University of Budapest (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem), the Faculty of Civil Engineering (Építőmérnöki Kar), the Department of Building Materials and Structures (Építőanyagok és Magasépítés Tanszék),  we were, on the demand of the head of the department prof. Györgye L. Balázs, accompanied by Viktor Hlavicka (from the building materials department) and Balázs Nagy (from the Department of Building Physics) who  showed us the building materials laboratories and presented  their research tasks, the instrumentation and the methods used. The possibility of collaboration between laboratories and the possibility of student placements was discussed.

At the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Building Materials and Structures contact was made with Professor Dragan Budjevac, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Professor Branko S. Bozic, and Dimirija Zakić, Head of the Building Materials Testing Laboratory, with whom a preliminary visit was arranged at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Brno and the AdMaS Center.

In addition, the business trip focused on visits to the manufacturing plant of building materials. The individual participants were acquainted with specific production processes and subsequently negotiated possible cooperation with the Faculty of Civil Engineering on partial research tasks and technology innovations, especially in the framework of student projects and contractual research.

In particular, the following enterprices  were visited:

Knauf in Zemun (Serbia)

SIKA SRBIJA in Šimanovci (Serbia)

Martini Gradnja d.o.o. in Inđija (Serbia)

Carmeuse limestone in Beremendu (Hungary)

Production of lime sand SILKA, Xella Hungary

On 11 September 2018, the AdMaS Center welcomed participants of the Meeting of the Building Structures Institutes and the Departments  of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Prague – Brno – Ostrava – Bratislava – Žilina – Košice). During a meeting organized by the Building Structures Institute  at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, colleagues from other universities took round of all the pavilions of the center and during a two-hour excursion they were acquainted with its equipment and current projects.

The AdMas Center, in cooperation with ConWe, s.r.o, took part in the implementation of the urban cell module, located in Malinovské square in Brno. The cell tests how to make good use of rainwater for cultivating a cooling green city.
The prototype operator is the Public Greenery of the City of Brno and it costs the city  about half a million crowns.

On 17th July 2018, thanks to the IAESTE organization, we welcomed in our center a new trainee from Norway, Tonje Lysø.  Tonje studies at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim. At AdMaS, she wants  to know well  the road lab and to actively participate in the research projects.

Since July 2018, VUT in Brno / AdMaS Center is a member of the VIPA International Association for Vacuum Insulation Panels. From this year, AdMaS / TSH employees will be involved in the development and standardization of super-insulation building materials along with the world’s best teams in the field (eg FIW Munchen, Va-Q-Tec, Porextherm, Rockwool, Evonic, etc.).

More information about the association can be found at:

https://vipa-international.org/

As  part of   the accompanying program of  Building  Fairs Brno,  held on 25-28 April 2018,  the Czech Chamber of Authorized  Engineers and Construction Engineers (ČKAIT) together with the Czech Association of Civil Engineers (CSSI) organized during the  Engineering Day 2018 a Conference on Fast Rail Links Czech Republic. This conference is part of CKAIT cooperation with the  Ministry of  Transport and the Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC).AdMaS Center was represented by doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D. who delivered a lecture on the Program for Supporting the Railway Technology Platform to accelerate  the construction of fast links. During the  lecture,  doc. Plašek pointed out that the  upbringing  and  education   of engineers and  technicians  needed to prepare  and  implement these  constructions  does no  yet meet the great interest of young students and therefore there is a risk that experts will be missed in the future.

Students of the doctoral study program of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Brno University of Technology, under the guidance of a prof. Stanislav Drochytka, who actively participate in the research activities of the AdMaS Center, once again gained the first places in category 4 – Universities, in the Competition of the Ministry of Industry and Trade – “Waste conversion to resources”. This year won the first place Ing. Pavlína Šebestová with work on “Autoclaved aerated concrete on the basis of waste ash and recycled glass” and the second place Ing. Jakub Hodul with the work “Utilization of fly ash contaminated by the denitrification of flue gases into polymeric building materials”. Jakub represented tha last year’s medalist Ing. Magdaléna Michalčíková.15