Course detail
Machines for Production of Building Materials
FSI-NSM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course is based on the technological processes in civil engineering. It includes a set of machines and systems – projection, structure, function, principal analyses. Also dealt with are storage silos, pneumatic transport, concrete mixers and pumps, calibrating and compacting machines, pre-stressing, feeders, dosers, handling equipments, crushers and mills including the disintegration theory, screens, cyclone separators, water jet and excavation disk cutting. Typical producers, ways of technical parameters reaching are discussed.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Successful completion of the course is conditional on the knowledge of technical mechanics, physics, higher mathematics, machine parts and their mechanisms, physics of materials and principles of electrical engineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the exercises and worked out calculating tasks. Examination tests student’s knowledge and skills, and the ability to apply them in practice.
Attendance at exercises is obligatory and checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the course supervisor.
Aims
The objective is for students to have an overview of machines and equipment in technological processes in civil engineering. Students will be provided with a basis for selection of machines and for designing of technological sequences, for projects of industrial plants. The course enables students to understand the function, construction, and fundamental calculations of machines in the technological processes in civil engineering, and makes them familiar with producers and design for technological complexes.
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
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Introduction, summary of processing matters, convection description state of stress.
2. Analyse of space matrix state of stress.
3. Determination tensor state of stress from re-contouring and position of the flow line.
4. Cauchy's differential formulas of balance.
5. Stokes – Navier's formulas.
6. Theory of uncouple solids.
7. Jaw breakers, gyratory breakers, crushing mills, cog-breakers, dynamic-breakers.
8. Dynamic mills, compressive mills, fall-mills with free milling bodies.
9. Mechanical sorting machines, separators, sorting machines without sieves.
10. Mixers, compounders, agitators, granulating machines.
11. Feeding machines, gob-fed machines, machines for formation. Vibratory compactors.
12. Transport and stocking of construction materials, mixing plants, moulds, compaction, constraint system machinery.
13. Numerical modelling of crushing plants and classifiers in mineral construction and demolition waste recycling applications using DEM analyses.*
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Variation of convections – deduction of equations.
2. The practical use of analytical relations, computation formulas.
3. Geometry of shear lines.
4. Application of DEM analyses to conveyors, storage and bulk material sorters using Altair's EDEM numerical software.*
5. Application of DEM analyses to crushers and mills using Altair's EDEM numerical software.*
6. Calculation of an uncouple work.
7. Calculation of forces acting to jaws of breakers.
8. Calculation of stone breakers, mills.
9. Calculation of screen separators.
10. Calculation of separation without screens and sedimentation.
11. Mixing, compacting, determination of forces.
12. Mass flow and core flow, silos, bunkers.
13. Validation of DEM crushing models for construction and demolition waste recycling technologies.*