Course detail

Unconventional Technology

FSI-HNE Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

The course is intended to extend knowledge of the engineering technology, especially of moulding and machining parts, concentrating on the production and working engineering production components. It introduces progressive unconventional technologies
in the interaction: machine – tool – workpiece. For this purpose the student will familiarise with fundamental methodology of the theory for processes of beam method of the machining – laser, plasma, water jet, ultrasonic, electrospark, chemical maschining as typical
representatives of working hard workable material.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Supervisor

Ing. Eva Peterková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of fundamental methods of machining and forming. Knowledge of physic on the secondary school level.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course unit credit requirements:
-participation in the exercises,
-delivery of assigned papers.
The exam will be written and oral and the resulting classification will be in accordance with Article 12 and 13 of the current BUT Study and Examination Regulations.
It is classificated to the ECTS grading scale.

Missed lessons will be compensated in alternative exercises by arrangement with the teacher.
Attendance in lectures is recommended.
Attendance in exercises is compulsory.
The attendance to the seminar is regularly checked and the participation in the lesson is recorded.

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide detailed information about technological processes applied for moulding and machining by the use of unconventional technologies. It will predicate possible consequences of these processes and their impact on the post-procedural state of the workpiece from the distinctive level of the integrity of the worked surface. Future technologists and engineers will be provided with the fundamentals necessary for an optimum and qualified decision making in terms of the engineering technology.
The students will get acquainted with their use in the industrial practice for atypical manufacturing processes. They will be able to create production processes and applications of unconventional engineering technologies for new products. They will learn the methodology necessary for determining whether the proposed unconventional technology is economically and ecologically effective.

Study aids

http://ust.fme.vutbr.cz/tvareni/studium/index.php?stranka=opory

http://ust.fme.vutbr.cz/obrabeni/?page=opory

and

E-learning

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
specialization STG: Manufacturing Technology, compulsory

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
specialization STM: Manufacturing Technology and Management in Industry, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to the technological processes of unconventional technologies of moulding, non-solid forming tool

  2. Hydroforming

  3. Forming with using elastic tool

  4. Incremental forming

  5. Technology of laser bending

  6. Rolling-in of tubes

  7. Classification of unconventional methods of machining. Electric erosion – physical principles. Diagrams of electric generators

  8. Electric erosion – wire cutting

  9. Electric erosion – excavating

  10. Technological application of laser cutting, physical principle

  11. Technological application of water jet cutting, physical principle

  12. Technological application of plasma beam cutting, ultrasonic machining, physical principle

  13. Chemical, photochemical, electrochemical machining, chemical principle

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Tube hydroforming – basic concepts

  2. Tube hydroforming – active and passive action of pistons

  3. Tube hydroforming – linear expanding

  4. Forming with using elastomer

  5. Incremental forming

  6. Laser bending

  7. Diagrams of electric generators

  8. Electric erosion of wire cutting – technological conditions, examples of the design of tools, ways of setting in the programme Kovoprog

  9. Electric erosion of wire cutting – excursion in a production factory

  10. Technology of laser cutting – excursion in a production factory

  11. Technology of water jet cutting – excursion in a production factory

  12. Technology of plasma beam cutting – examples of usage, comparison with laser beam and water jet

  13. Technology of ultrasonic machining, chemical, photochemical, electrochemical machining, – examples of usage