Course detail

Transport Machines

FSI-QTZAcad. year: 2011/2012

Material manipulation and its position in production and storage. Palletization and containerization, means for manipulation with pallets and containers. Storage systems, shelf stowing machines, power trucks. Cranes, types, use, calculations of basic structural subgroups. Conveyers with and without pull elements. Basic calculations. Personal traffic – lifts, escalators and moving footpaths.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course ‚Transport machines‘ will enable the students to gain the basic knowledge about the development of the branch. In addition, students will be made familiar with solutions of some typical structural construction nodes and mechanisms. The acquaired knowledge will help them with the appropriate selection and design of transport machines.

Prerequisites

Students are required to have basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics, higher mathematics, machine parts and their mechanism, physics of materials and principles of electrotechnical ingineering.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The examination has a written and oral part. Written part of the exam is evaluated by 50 points; it is necessary to achieve at least 25 points to be accepted for the oral part. Oral exam is evaluated independently and it is the same weight as the written part.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the meaning of materials handling in manufacturing and storing. Students will learn of typical representatives of manipulation and storing machines, such as container cranes, shelf stowing machines, lift trucks, trolley cranes and workshop cranes, conveyers and lifts.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at seminars is obligatory, recorded by teacher. The way of compensation of missed lessons (in justified cases) is solved individualy with the subject provider.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

DIETRICH VON BERG; GÜNTER HOLZWARTH. Krane und Kranbahnen: Berechnung, Konstruktion, Ausführung. 3., neubearb. Aufl. Stuttgart [u.a.]: Teubner, 2001. ISBN 3519252341. (DE)
SHAPIRO, Lawrence K. a Jay P. SHAPIRO. Cranes and derricks. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2011. ISBN 0071625577. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2I-P Master's

    branch M-ADI , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch M-ADI , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. The meaning of material manipulation in transport
2. Palletization and containerization. Means for manipulation with containers.
3. Manipulation in stores. Shelf stowing machines.
4. Trucks (with gas engines, electrical engines)
5. Cranes. The partition of cranes and their use.
6. Trolley cranes, workshop cranes, steel-works chargers
7. Building tower cranes, mobile and special cranes.
8. Selected structural elements of cranes
9. Hoisting mechanism of cranes
10. The mechanism of crane travel and crane rotation
11.Conveyers with pull element
12. Conveyers without pull element
13. Containers and feeders

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. The analysis of material flow
2. The traffic technological problem
3. Calculations of the capacity of stocks
4. Calculation of the rope, rollers and wire rope drums
5. The design of the hoisting mechanism
6. Travel resistance and wind resistance
7. The check of starting torque and the check of adhesion
8. The design of the travelling brake of the crane
9. The design of travelling mechanism of the crane
10. The calculation of the belt conveyer
11. The calculation of the spiral chute
12. The calculation of the worm conveyer
13. The calculation of the rollway