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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Foundry Machinery and Equipment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-1404/01
Abbreviation ZS
Course title Foundry Machinery and Equipment
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator Ing. Tomáš Válek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1) Significance of foundry technology, production types of foundry plants.

2) Areas for preparation of raw materials and equipment for preparation of charge.

3) Production aggregates in foundries.

4) Equipment of melting shops, lining of production aggregates.

5) Basic components of production aggregates.

6) Pouring equipment.

7) Dressing shops for new and regenerative sand mixtures, regeneration.

8) Mechanisation of moulding shops, machines for moulding in frames, automatic moulding lines.

9) Sand slingers, equipment for ST technology, manufacture of shell moulds, V – process and investment casting.

10) Machines and equipment for manufacture of cores.

11) Machines and equipment for casting into ingots and for low-pressure casting.

12) Machines and equipment for centrifugal and die casting.

13) Equipment for cleaning of surface of castings and release of castings from the moulds. Equipment for finishing of castings.

14) Environment, wastes and safety of operation.

Practikal:

1) Occupational safety training. Tour at the FMME laboratories, scientific-research activities.

2) Fundaments of technical drawing of machinery components I.

3) Technical-economic indicators of foundries. Solution of operational sets of foundries.

4) Bases of technical drawing of machinery components II.

5) Designing of production sets.

6) Designing of production set for manufacture of cores and for melting shop.

7) Release of castings from the moulds. Production set of castings cleaning shop and sand – preparing plant. Sets of warehouses.

8) Transport in foundry. Spatial lay-out of production sets in foundry.

9) Monitoring of lay-out of production sets at foundry shop.

10) Seminar – selected issues of monitoring of lay-out of production sets at foundry shop. specification for preparation of a report.

11) Environment and occupational hygiene in foundries.

12) Reading room – selection and processing of topical literary sources from the field of foundry machinery and equipment.

13) Seminar – presentation of results of bibliographic search and study of literature.

14) Delivery and evaluation of the report from the semestral tasks. Credits.

E-learning

Contacts for the English version: http://staff.vsb.cz/

Literature

[1] Schleg, P. F., et. al. Technology of Metalcasting, AFS, Illinois, 2003, 351 p. ISBN 0-87433-257-5.

Advised literature

[1] Campbell, J., Castings, University of Birmingham, 2005, 337 p. ISBN 0-7506-4790-6.