Course detail
Transport and Handling Equipment
FSI-EDO Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
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 principal structural subgroups. Conveyers with and without pull elements. Principal calculations. Passenger traffic – lifts, escalators and moving footpaths.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
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 engineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The course-unit credit: Attendance at seminars. The presentation of all solved problems. – Exam: The verification of the knowledge by an oral exam.
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, recorded by the teacher. The way of compensation of missed lessons (in justified cases) in solved individually with the subject provider.
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 facilities, such as container cranes, shelf stowing machines, lift trucks, trolley cranes, conveyers and service lifts.
The course ‚Transport and handling equipment‘ will enable students to gain the basic knowledge about the development of the branch. In addition, students will be made familiar with soluations of some typical structural construction nodes and mechanisms. The acquired knowledge will help them with the appropriate selection and design of transport machines.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization SSZ: Machine and Equipment Construction, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Transport and manipulation in production technologies – design, construction.
2. Universal procedure for design of transport and manipulation device drives.
3. Cranes. The classification of cranes and their use.
4. The selected structural elements of cranes.
5. The hoisting mechanism, speed-torque characteristics of electromotors.
6. The mechanism of crane travel and crane rotation.
7. Skeleton constructions of cranes.
8. Belt conveyors, bucket elevators.
9. Bulk conveyors, worm conveyors.
10.Driven roll-ways, gravity roll-ways.
11.Lifts and escalators.
12.Rail transport. Special transport principles.
13.Application of technical calculations.
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Calculation of the rope, rollers and wire rope drums.
2. Strength control of the crane hook.
3. The design of the hoisting mechanism of the crane.
4. The design of travelling mechanism of the crane.
5. The design of the travelling brake of the crane.
6. Stability of the crane.
7. The calculation of the drive of the belt conveyer.
8. The calculation of the spiral chute.
9. The methods for solution of truss girders.
10.The calculation of the worm conveyor.
11.The calculation of the rollway.
12.Application of DEM analyzes to conveyor modeling.
13.Credit test.