Course detail

Transport and Handling Equipment

FSI-EDOAcad. year: 2025/2026

Material manipulation and its position in production and storage. Palletization and containerization, means for manipulation with pallets and containers. Storage systems, shelf stowing machines, power trucks. Cranes - types, use, calculations of principal structural subgroups. Conveyers with and without pull elements. Principal calculations. Passenger traffic - lifts, escalators and moving footpaths.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jiří Malášek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automotive Engineering (ÚADI)

Entry knowledge

Students are required to have basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics, higher mathematics, machine parts and their mechanism, physics of materials and principles of electrotechnical engineering.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course-unit credit: Attendance at seminars. The presentation of all solved problems. – Exam: The verification of the knowledge by an oral exam.
Attendance at seminars is obligatory, recorded by the teacher. The way of compensation of missed lessons (in justified cases) in solved individually with the subject provider.

Aims

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the meaning of materials handling in manufacturing and storing. Students will learn of typical representatives of manipulation and storing facilities, such as container cranes, shelf stowing machines, lift trucks, trolley cranes, conveyers and service lifts.
The course ‚Transport and handling equipment‘ will enable students to gain the basic knowledge about the development of the branch. In addition, students will be made familiar with soluations of some typical structural construction nodes and mechanisms. The acquired knowledge will help them with the appropriate selection and design of transport machines.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BIGOŠ, Peter. Teória a stavba zdvíhacích a dopravných zariadení. Košice: TU v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, 2012, 356 s. : il. ISBN 978-80-553-1187-6. (SK)
DIETRICH VON BERG; GÜNTER HOLZWARTH. Krane und Kranbahnen: Berechnung, Konstruktion, Ausführung. 3., neubearb. Aufl. Stuttgart [u.a.]: Teubner, 2001. ISBN 3519252341. (DE)
HOFFMANN, Klaus; Krenn. Fördertechnik 1: Bauelemente, Konstruktion, Berechnung. 8 Aufl. s.l.: Oldenbourg Industrieverlag, 2012. ISBN 9783835630598. (DE)
KOVÁČ, Milan a Vladimír KLAPITA. Manipulácia s materiálom v doprave. 1. vyd. V Žiline: EDIS, 2003. ISBN 8080701741. (SK)
MCGUIRE, Patrick M. Conveyors: Application, Selection, and Integration. Baton Rouge: CRC Press, 2009. DOI: 10.1201/9781439803905. ISBN 9781439803882. (EN)
POLÁK, Jaromír, Jiří PAVLISKA a Aleš SLÍVA. Dopravní a manipulační zařízení I. 1. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita, 2001. ISBN 8024800438. (CS)
SHAPIRO, Lawrence K, Jay P SHAPIRO a Howard I SHAPIRO. Cranes and derricks. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010. ISBN 0071625577. (EN)
SHIGLEY, Joseph Edward, Charles R. MISCHKE, Richard G. (Richard Gordon) BUDYNAS, Martin HARTL a Miloš VLK. Konstruování strojních součástí. V Brně: VUTIUM, 2010, xxv, 1159 s. : il. ; 26 cm. ISBN 978-80-214-2629-0. (CS)

Recommended reading

BIGOŠ, Peter. Teória a stavba zdvíhacích a dopravných zariadení. Košice: TU v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, 2012, 356 s. : il. ISBN 978-80-553-1187-6. (SK)
DIETRICH VON BERG; GÜNTER HOLZWARTH. Krane und Kranbahnen: Berechnung, Konstruktion, Ausführung. 3., neubearb. Aufl. Stuttgart [u.a.]: Teubner, 2001. ISBN 3519252341. (DE)
HOFFMANN, Klaus; Krenn. Fördertechnik 1: Bauelemente, Konstruktion, Berechnung. 8 Aufl. s.l.: Oldenbourg Industrieverlag, 2012. ISBN 9783835630598. (DE)
KOVÁČ, Milan a Vladimír KLAPITA. Manipulácia s materiálom v doprave. 1. vyd. V Žiline: EDIS, 2003. ISBN 8080701741. (SK)
MCGUIRE, Patrick M. Conveyors: Application, Selection, and Integration. Baton Rouge: CRC Press, 2009. DOI: 10.1201/9781439803905. ISBN 9781439803882. (EN)
POLÁK, Jaromír, Jiří PAVLISKA a Aleš SLÍVA. Dopravní a manipulační zařízení I. 1. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita, 2001. ISBN 8024800438. (CS)
SHAPIRO, Lawrence K, Jay P SHAPIRO a Howard I SHAPIRO. Cranes and derricks. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010. ISBN 0071625577. (EN)
SHIGLEY, Joseph Edward, Charles R. MISCHKE, Richard G. (Richard Gordon) BUDYNAS, Martin HARTL a Miloš VLK. Konstruování strojních součástí. V Brně: VUTIUM, 2010, xxv, 1159 s. : il. ; 26 cm. ISBN 978-80-214-2629-0. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-STR-P Bachelor's

    specialization SSZ , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Malášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Transport and manipulation in production technologies – design, construction.
2. Universal procedure for design of transport and manipulation device drives.
3. Cranes. The classification of cranes and their use.
4. The selected structural elements of cranes.
5. The hoisting mechanism, speed-torque characteristics of electromotors.
6. The mechanism of crane travel and crane rotation.
7. Skeleton constructions of cranes.
8. Belt conveyors, bucket elevators.
9. Bulk conveyors, worm conveyors.
10.Driven roll-ways, gravity roll-ways.
11.Lifts and escalators.
12.Rail transport. Special transport principles.
13.Application of technical calculations.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Malášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Calculation of the rope, rollers and wire rope drums.
2. Strength control of the crane hook.
3. The design of the hoisting mechanism of the crane.
4. The design of travelling mechanism of the crane.
5. The design of the travelling brake of the crane.
6. Stability of the crane.
7. The calculation of the drive of the belt conveyer.
8. The calculation of the spiral chute.
9. The methods for solution of truss girders.
10.The calculation of the worm conveyor.
11.The calculation of the rollway.
12.Application of DEM analyzes to conveyor modeling.
13.Credit test.