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Construction Machines
FAST-BWB009Acad. year: 2023/2024
Mechanisation of construction processes. Partial and comprehensive mechanisation. Degrees of mechanisation. Performance of construction machinery. Performance of sets of machines. Control and driving of construction machinery. Mechanisation of groundwork. Technologies used in groundwork. Drilling of rocks and drilling technologies. Machines for manufacturing, transporting and processing concrete mixtures. Machines for building and altering transport and utility infrastructure. Transport and handling. Mechanisation of demolition work. Recycling of materials. Finishing work. Harvesting and processing of timber. Safety at work, ecology.
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The students will master the objective of the course, i.e. mechanization and automation in building industry, machines and equipment for earthworks, for transportation and assembly, concreting and masonry works and engineering works.
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MARŠÁL Petr. Stavební stroje. Brno: CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2774-4 (CS)
MOTYČKA, Vít a ČERNÝ, Jaromír. Věžové jeřáby v pozemním stavitelství. Brno: CERM, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7204-505-1 (CS)
Recommended reading
STACK, Barbara. Encyclopaedia of Tunneling, Minning and Drilling Equipment. Hobart, Australia: Muden Publishing Company,, 1995. ISBN 095877112X (EN)
VANĚK, Antonín. Moderní strojní technika a technologie zemních prací. Praha: Academia, 2003. ISBN: 80-200-1045-9 (CS)
VANĚK, Antonín. Strojní zařízení pro stavební práce. Praha: Sobotáles, 2001. ISBN: 8090168418 (CS)
ZAPLETAL, Ivan a BŘOUŠEK, Miloš a kol.. Inženýrské stavby – technologie. Bratislava: STU v Bratislavě, 1998. ISBN 80-227-1156-X (SK)
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