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Transport Equipment

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0601/01
Abbreviation DZ
Course title Transport Equipment
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Robert Brázda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Introduction, correct choice of conveyor, selection criteria, typical applications, economic aspect of selection, basic literature.
2. Belt conveyor, basics of force transmission, coefficient of friction, single and multi-drum drives, partial drives, belt construction, drive and tensioning stations, transient modes.
3. Special belt conveyors, conveyors with a cover belt, closed, copying the terrain, new types and designs, eg Flexovel, Sicon.
4. Chain conveyors, construction, applications, application possibilities, construction of drive and tensioning, calculation.
5. Articulated conveyors, constructions, applications, possibilities of use, construction of drive and tensioning, calculation.
6. Redlers, calculation, construction, applications, construction of carriers, drive and tensioning, calculation.
7. Overhead conveyors, construction of typical hinges, applications, construction of drive and tensioning station.
8. Bucket elevators, drive stations, tensioning stations, design solutions.
9. Bucket elevators, attachment of the bucket to the carrier, technological applications.
10. Vibrating conveyors, basic calculation, types of drive, construction, applications.
11. Screw conveyors, calculation, applications, technological applications.
12. Gravity roller tracks, track construction, service equipment construction, roller construction.
13. Roller tracks driven, calculation, construction of tracks.
14. Typical features of development tendencies in the principles and constructions of conveyors, competitiveness of Czech production.

Literature

SHAPIRO, I. H., SHAPIRO, J. P., SHAPIRO, K. L.: Cranes and Dericks. McGrawHill 2000.
YADLEY, E. D., STACE, L. R.: Belt conveying of minerals, England, 2009.

Advised literature

WALKER, S. C. Mine Winding and Transport. Elsevier 1988
Standard Shear Testing Technique for Particulate Solids Using the Jenike Shear Cell (SSTT), A Report of the EFCE Working Party on the Mechanics, UK (1989), ISBN 0-85295-232-5 .
SCHULTE, Ch.: Logistika (Logistics), Victoria Publishing Praha, 1994.