Course detail

Supporting Structures of Machines

FSI-QNSAcad. year: 2015/2016

The course familiarises students with the theoretical basis of structural mechanics calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering. Its aim is for students to get a particular picture of the tension and deformation state of the arbitrary point of the supporting structure. The course addresses the problems of the structures deformations, statically indeterminate problems, moving loads of structures, solution of thin-walled bars, principles and applications of the final elements
method in the field.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miroslav Škopán, CSc.

Department

Institute of Automotive Engineering (ÚADI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering.
Principles and applications of the final elements method in the field.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the course is conditional on the basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics and higher mathematics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. Part of the course can be excursions to the companies, which manufacture or operate the equipments from the thematic area of education.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to extend the existing knowledge of mechanics and apply it to the problems of supporting structures of building and transport machines, it includes computer support.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the exercises actively and worked out assigned projects.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Jurášek, O.: Nosné konstrukce stavebních strojů I, skriptum VUT 1986 (CS)
Jurášek, O.: Teorie nosných konstrukcí strojů, skriptum VUT 1989 (CS)
Russell C. Hibbeler: Structural Analysis (8th Edition), Prentice Hall 2011, ISBN 978-0132570534 (EN)
Stephen P. Timoshenko; James M. Gere: Theory of Elastic Stability (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering) 2 edition, Dover Publications 2009; ISBN 978-0486472072 (EN)
Zienkiewicz, O. C.: The Finite Element Method, 1977 (EN)

Recommended reading

R. W. Ogden: Non-Linear Elastic Deformations; Dover Publications (July 7, 1997); ISBN: 978-0486696485 (EN)
Jurášek, O.: Nosné konstrukce stavebních strojů I, skriptum VUT 1986 (CS)
Russell C. Hibbeler: Structural Analysis (8th Edition), Prentice Hall 2011, ISBN 978-0132570534 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N2301-2 Master's

    branch M-ADI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
    branch M-ADI , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Přemysl Pokorný, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Basic terms used in the theory of supporting structures
2. Analysis of statically determinate structures
3. Movable load, influence lines.
4. Movable loads.
5. The force method
6. Statically indeterminate structures
7. Symmetry and asymmetry
8. The displacement method
9. The displacement method
10. FEM: introduction
11. FEM: shape functions
12. FEM: materials
13. The torsion of thin, open sections

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Přemysl Pokorný, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Recapitulate
2. Analysis of truss structures
3. Movable load, Influence lines.
4. Movable loads.
5. Analysis of statically determinate structures
6. The force method
7. The force method
8. The displacement method
9. The displacement method
10. FEM
11. FEM
12. The torsion of thin, open sections
13. FEM: examples