CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

COURSE GUIDE
Course / Section CE 264 Construction Materials and Testing Credit Units 2units lec/1unit
Lab
Term Offered Total Hours 54
Instructor Engr. MARJORIE S. AYING
Pre-Requisite/s CE231 (Statics of Rigid Bodies)
Co-Requisite/s CE234 (Mechanics of Deformable Bodies)
Course Description
The course deals with the physical properties of common construction materials primarily metals,
plastics, wood, concrete, coarse and fine aggregates, asphalt and synthetic materials, examination
of material properties with respect to design and use of end product, design and control of
aggregates, concrete and asphalt mixtures, the principle of testing; characteristics of the test;
properties of materials and materials testing equipment.
Topics / Modules and Intended Learning Outcomes
Topic 1: Main Components of Concrete
A. CEMENT
-PRODUCTION
-COMPOSITION
-FINENESS
-SPECIFIC GRAVITY
-PROPERTIES OF CEMENT: SETTING, SOUNDNESS, COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
OF MORTAR
-WATER CEMENT RATIO
-TYPES OF PORTLAND CEMENT
B. WATER
- (ACCEPTABLE CRITERIA FOR MIXING WATER TO CONCRETE)
C. AGGREGATES
- GENERAL SIZE CHARACTERISTICS OF AGGREGATES
- AGGREGATE USES
-PROPERTIES
-PARTICLE SHAPE AND SURFACE TEXTURE
-SOUNDNESS AND DURABILITY
-TOUGHNESS, HARDNESS AND ABRASION RESISTANCE
-SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND ABSORPTION
-BULK UNIT WEIGHT AND VOIDS IN AGGREGATE
-STRENGTH AND MODULUS
Topic 2: Admixtures
A. AIR-ENTRAINERS
B. WATER-REDUCERS
C. RETARDERS
D. HYDRATION-CONTROL ADMIXTURES
E. ACCELERATORS
F. SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS

Topic 3: Concrete and Concrete Proportioning

A. MIXING, PLACING AND HANDLING FRESH CONCRETE
B. CURING CONCRETE
C. PROPERTIES OF HARDENED CONCRETE
D. TESTING OF HARDENED CONCRETE
E. ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL CONCRETE

Topic 4: STEEL
A. CLASSIFICATIONS OF STEEL USED IN CONSTRUCTION
B. STRUCTURAL STEEL GRADES
C. COLD-FORMED STEEL
D. FASTENING PRODUCTS
E. REINFORCING STEEL
F. STEEL FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
G. MECHANICAL TESTING OF STEEL
H. STEEL CORROSION
Topic 5: MASONRY
A. CLASSIFICATION OF MASONRY UNITS
B. MORTAR AND GROUT
C. PLASTER

Topic 6: ASPHALT BINDERS AND MIXTURES

A. TYPES OF ASPHALT CEMENT PRODUCTS
B. USES OF ASPHALT
C. TEMPERATURE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF ASPHALT
D. CLASSIFICATION OF ASPHALT
E. ASPHALT CONCRETE

Topic 7: WOOD
A. WOOD PRODUCTION
B. LUMBER GRADES
C. DEFECTS IN LUMBER AND WOOD PRESERVATION
D. PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
E. ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS

TOPIC 8: GEOSYNTHETICS
A. TYPES OF GEOSYNTHETICS
B. FUNCTIONS OF GEOSYNTHETICS

MADE4Learners FRAMEWORK
Distance Online
Approach Blended Distance Online / Blended
Technical o Hardware: Desktop/ laptop, and/or Smartphone, and/or Tablet
Requirements o Software/App: MS Teams PC/mobile app, PDF, Email, Scanner
o Materials, etc: Drawing tools, bondpaper and pens, Scientific Calculator
Communication o MS Team Group Chat, institutional email, text/call
Means o Instructors Email: [email protected]; contact no. 09216691001
o Learning Management System: MS Teams
Reminders o The learning activities will be uploaded in MS TEAMS. If not possible, send
LECTURE through institutional email ([email protected])

o DEADLINE:
o Activities are given a set of deadlines after being posted online. Assessments
are quizzes and major exams (prelim, midterm, prefinal and final exams)
which are held in face-to-face sessions.
o All notes and lectures/discussions will be uploaded in MS teams before or
after discussions.
REMINDERS
LABORATORY o The course is a hybrid approach wherein laboratory experiments are
performed onsite.
o Each group is composed of 9-10 members which are divided into onsite
and online members. Onsite members are the ones who performed the
experiments and also take photos and videos during the experiment while
the online members are assigned to do the laboratory final report and
instructional video on how the experiment was done which includes the
procedure and the results of the experiment.

o The deadline for the final report and instructional video is a week after the
experiment was performed.

o The format of the final report is provided. It should be clear that this is a
final report, not preliminary, and that it should be clean and neat even if you
do not have good penmanship. The final reports are scanned using a Cam
scanner or a readily available scanner before submission.

o All members (both online and onsite) are required to submit a rating of
each member. Online members rate their co-members as well as the onsite
members. Ratings for onsite are collected right after every experiment.
Online members are collected only in MS teams (assignment setting).

o The rating will only be whole numbers of 0 to 10. A maximum of repeated 2

ratings is only allowed. Example 1: Student A will rate Students B and C for
10 points, Student D for 9 points, and E for 8 points.
Example 2: Student B will rate Students A for 10 points, Student C and D
for 9 points, and E for 7 points.
 LATE SUBMISSION OF Late submission of activities/outputs/reports has corresponding deductions for
OUTPUTS/REPORTS example 30mins late (15% deduction), exceed 30mins (30% deduction)

o All files should be in PDF format, not png, or jpeg, or image.

GRADING SYSTEM
Midterm Average, MA
= 40% Formative Assessment + 40% Summative Assessment + 20% Synoptic Assessment
where:
Formative Assessment = Class Standing like quizzes, seatwork, homework, etc.
Summative Assessment = 15% Prelim Exam + 25% Midterm Exam
Synoptic Assessment = Laboratory Experiments

Final Average, FA
= 30% MG + 20% Formative Assessment + 35% Summative Assessment + 15% Synoptic
Assessment
where:
Formative Assessment = Class Standing like quizzes, seatwork, homework, etc.
Summative Assessment = 15% Prefinal Exam + 20% Final Exam
Synoptic Assessment = Laboratory Experiments

NOTE:
Incomplete Final Reports with passing grade = INC
Incomplete Final Reports with failing grade = 1.0

PASSING: 60%

Prepared by:

Engr. Marjorie S. Aying

CE264 Instructor