Course detail

Construction Machines

FAST-BWB009Acad. year: 2025/2026

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Department

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management (TST)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge technology of construction processes, occupational safety in civil engineering.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

·Providing the students with complete overview of function, principle and application of machinery and equipment in production of building materials. Individual machines from rocks mining, transportation, treatment, homogenisation up to transportation of raw materials into the plant itself are described. The subject deals with all machines for raw material processing in the production of mortars, raw ceramics, light building materials, concrete goods. The stress is laid on automation and robotics application in production of building materials.
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.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HENKOVÁ, Svatava. Stavební stroje. Brno: VUT v Brně, 2017. Studijní opora (CS)
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

KAŠPAR, Milan a VOŠTOVÁ, Věra. Lasery ve stavebnictví a navigace strojů. Praha: Informační centrum ČKAIT, 2001. ISBN 80-86364-61-5 (CS)
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)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's

    specialization S , 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject. Mechanisation of construction work, basic structural elements.
  • 2. Presentation of the relationships between the work done by construction machines from the point of view of technical procedures.
  • 3. Production and conveyance of energy.
  • 4. Groundwork and work with rocks.
  • 5. Production, transportation and processing of fresh concrete.
  • 6. Vertical transportation and handling.
  • 7. Horizontal transportation and handling.
  • 8. Finishing work.
  • 9. Utility and transportation infrastructure.
  • 10. Demolition, recycling.
  • 11. Harvesting and processing of wood, safety at work, ecology.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1:Acquainting students with the subject and requirements. Individual assignment of machin
  • 2:Assignment of task 1 – Dozers performance, consultations.
  • 3:Assignment of task 2 – Loaders performance, consultations.
  • 4:Assignment of task 3 – Excavators performance, consultations.
  • 5:Assignment of task 4 – Machinery set design for earthworks, consultations.
  • 6:Excursion – Machines for earthworks.
  • 7:Assignment of task 5 – Machinery set design for removal of materials, consultations.
  • 8:Consultations.
  • 9:Excursion – Machines for vertical transfer
  • 10:Final consultation of machine set design for the assigned technological stage.
  • 11:Test, submission of assignments.