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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Special Methods of Casting Production

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-1807/01
Abbreviation SMVO
Course title Special Methods of Casting Production
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Tomáš Elbel, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lecture
We were advised that those items were 14 weeks in a semester, but not to follow it.
1st A brief overview of all methods of casting.
2nd Gravity Die Casting molds - technological and economic conditions of the method.
3rd Centrifugal casting method TEK-CAST.
4th Low pressure casting - equipment, technology solutions, specific defects in castings.
5th The technology of pressure casting - casting material, material forms, machinery, technology solution forms.
6th Modification of pressure die casting - thixocasting, squeeze casting, semi solid casting - casting and solid-liquid state.
7th Production of rotors of electric motors.
8th Precision casting using meltable modelu.kompletní technological process of casting.
9th In-process - mold using reduced pressure (vacuum).
10th Using magnetic fields to prepare foundry molds and influencing the crystallization and solidification of castings. Frozen forms - EFF SET PROCESS.
11th Technology of casting magnesium and titanium alloys.
12th More unconventional methods of production of castings in the world, and CR.

Exercise
1st Safety training. Analysis methods of casting production in the CR - examples from the area.
2nd Casting in metal forms - practical exercises in the laboratory. Control and monitoring of significant melt process parameters (melt and mold temperature, thermal analysis).
3rd Excursion to the centrifugal casting foundry (foundry Vítkovické spol. Ltd.) with a practical demonstration of the entire production process. Monitoring the production of castings from ferrous and nonferrous metal centrifugal casting in metal molds.
4th Casting of magnesium alloys - practical exercises in the laboratory. Real example of gravity casting process in metal molds. Provision of protective atmosphere during casting and mold protection.
5th Excursion to low pressure casting foundry (Crommodora Wheels Mosnov and Hayes Lemmerz, Ostrava). Getting to know the entire manufacturing process.
6th Casting of special alloys. Melting and casting in a vacuum - practical exercises in the laboratory. Evaluation of monitored parameters.
7th Seminar - Professional discussions between students and teachers of subjects continuously processed in the semester work.
8th Tours of the foundry casting (lost wax on the model) - CIREX CZ Koprivnice. Tours of the operation, installation and inspection of casting parts. Development of the manufacturing production process.
9th Casting the shell (for Lost Foam) - practical exercises in the laboratory. Production of wax models of delivery of the inlet system and the creation of packaging.
10th Casting a combustible model - practical exercises in the laboratory. Production of the Rapid Prototyping technology, further adjustment models, production of plaster molds and finishing of castings produced.
11th Seminar - Professional discussions between students and teachers on topics processed in the semester work.
12.Control test. Credit.

Literature

[1] Kaufmann, H.; Uggowitzer, P.: Metallurgy and Processing of High-Integrity Light Metal Pressure Castings. Fachverlag Schiele  Schön, Berlin 2007, 274 s., ISBN 978-3-7949-0754-0.

Advised literature

[1] Fresch, O.: Die Casting World 2003, Nr. 2, s. 30.