Course detail

Supporting Structures of Machines II

FSI-QN2 Acad. year: 2023/2024 Summer semester

The course familiarises students with the theoretical basis of structural mechanics calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering. Its aim is for students to get a particular picture of the tension and deformation state of the arbitrary point of the supporting structure. The course addresses the problems of the structures deformations, statically indeterminate problems, moving loads of structures, solution of thin-walled bars, principles and applications of the final elements method in the field.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Entry knowledge

Successful completion of the course is conditional on the basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics and higher mathematics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Comprehensive Examination for two semesters consists of written and oral. Written examination is evaluated by 50 points for the oral part is necessary to obtain at least 25 points. The oral part of the exam is evaluated independently and it is the evaluation of the same weight as the written part.
Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the exercises actively and worked out assigned project (the displacement method), which follows the project from QN1. Presence in the exercises is obligatory.

Aims

The aim of the course is to extend the existing knowledge of mechanics and apply it to the problems of supporting structures of building and transport machines, it includes computer support.
Calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering. Principles and applications of the final elements method in the field.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Basic terms used in the theory of supporting structures.
2. The displacement method – joint equation.
3. The displacement method – geometric and bunk equation.
4. The displacement method – geometric and bunk equation.
5. The displacement method – moving load.
6. The displacement method – moving load.
7. The displacement method- spatial frames.
8. FEM introduction.
9. Use of symmetry.
10. Use of symmetry.
11. The torsion of thin, open sections.
12. The torsion of thin, open sections.
13. The torsion of thin, open sections.

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Sample real application of displacement method.
2. – 7. The displacement method.
8. FEM.
9. FEM.
10. FEM utilization symmetry.
11. FEM utilization symmetry.
12. Twisting thin-walled sections.
13. Twisting thin-walled sections.