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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Fundamentals of Foundry Technologies

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-1412/01
Abbreviation ZST
Course title Fundamentals of Foundry Technologies
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vlasta Bednářová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Foundry industry in the Czech republic and in the world, statistics, possibilities and limits of casting production. Procedure of casting production from a design to the dispatch department
2. Applied processes and techniques in foundries. Production of castings using permanent metal mold and lost sand mold
3. Molding materials, sand, binders, mold and core making technologies, molding mixtures making and testing
4. Sand reclamation techniques – dry, wet, thermal reclamation
5. Melt flow in molds,castability, running system design and calculation
6. Static and dynamic action of the melted alloys on molds and cores. Gases in metals and molds
7. Castings crystallization and solidification
8. Solidification shrinkage – feeding (risers)
9. Linear contraction of the casting, hot tearing, cold cracking, residual stresses
10. Materials for casting production, cast steel
11. Cast irons - types, structures, mecanical properties
12. Cast iron – melting, secondary metallurgy, innoculation
13. Non ferrous alloys for casting - metallurgy, properties
14. Terminal consultation
practices
1. Refractory materials for mold and core making, silica and non silica sands, organic and inorganic binders
2. Molding mixtures making and testing -– test report
3. Mold and core making technologies, split pattern, simple and complex mold, core making by compactin or hardening
4. Molding and pouring the own AlSi alloy casting
5. Visit of a cast iron foundry and its pattern shop
6. Casting design, axonometric drawing
7. Calculation of metalostatic pressure and buoyancy
8. Casting designing- parting line, scarfs, working allowance
9. Visit of a hight pressure die casting aluminium alloys foundry
10. Running system design and calculation (program)
11. Calculation of the riser volume ( program)
12. Cast irons, steels, standards, properties, metallografy
13. Seminary Rapid prototyping , computer simulations
14. Final seminary, credit

E-learning

Address where pedagogs could be contacted:: http://staff.vsb.cz/

Literature

Schieg,F.P. : Technology of Metalcasting. American Foundry Society,Des
Plaines,IL 2003.

Advised literature

Herfurth,K.;Ketscher,N.;Köhler,M. : Giessereitechnik KOMPAKT ,
Giesserei-Verlag,Düsseldorf
Articles in professional journals, papers of conferences, research reports, theses.