Course detail
Transport Machines
FSI-QTZ Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer 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 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
6
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 ingineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
26 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. Containers and feeders.
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.