Course detail

Castings Quality Control

FSI-PKOAcad. year: 2025/2026

Economic aspects of quality. Quality and protection of the environment. Legislation. Systems of quality management assurance. Quality Journal. Preparing a quality manual - analysis and application. The Deming principles, the Juran trilogy, the Taguchi loss function. Methods of chemical analysis, electrochemical and spectrometric methods. Determining the content of gas in metals. Application of mechanical testing to castings. Physical testing for operational & technological properties. Visual inspection. Principal methods of non-destructive testing based on capillary phenomena, magnetic and electrical properties of substances, acoustic and radiologic methods, infrared flaw detection. Fundamentals and application of ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation. Principles of statistical quality inspection. Metrology laboratories.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Antonín Záděra, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology (ÚST)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of quality and metrology. A good grasp of foundry-engineering technologies. Knowledge of materials, mechanical and technological properties. Fundamentals, principles and SI units used in non-destructive methods (Materials science, Physics).

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Conditions of awarding the course-unit credit: being present in exercises.
The subject of examination is the student's knowledge of individual methods of materials testing and evaluation of materials properties and their application, using practical examples. Oral examination with preparation in writing.
Attendance at lecture is recommended. Attendance at seminars is required. Understanding the subject-matter delivered by the lecturer is checked in practicals. Students agree with the course supervisor on making up for absence from classes. If there are more cases of absence, an individual programme will have to be worked out and defended before the course-unit credit can be awarded.

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic methods of analysing chemical, physical, operational-technological properties of foundry materials, non-destructive testing and its application. Students should learn the principles and systems of ensuring quality management in engineering plants. They will make use of this knowledge when working on their diploma projects and in practice.
The course will provide students with a broad overview of the area of individual inspection methods and related systems of quality management.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČECH, Jaroslav. Technická měření ve slévárenství. 3. vyd. Brno: VUT Brno, 1990, 178 s. ISBN 80-214-0093-5. (CS)
ČECH, Jaroslav. Vady a kontrola odlitků. 2. vyd. Brno: VUT Brno, 1991, 140 s. ISBN 80-214-0278-4. (CS)
KOPEC, B. Nedestruktivní zkoušení materiálů a konstrukcí: (nauka o materiálu IV). Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2008, 571 s. ISBN 978-80-7204-591-4. (CS)
Metals Handbook: Volume 10, American Society for Metals, USA, 1998 (EN)
Metals Handbook: Volume 15, American Society for Metals, USA, 1998 (EN)

Recommended reading

Čech,J.: Technická měření ve slévárenství, VUT FSI Brno, 1990
Čech,J.: Vady a kontrola odlitků, VUT FSI Brno, 1991
Mizuno,S.: Řízení jakosti, VP Praha, 1993

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-SLE-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Antonín Záděra, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Quality - protection of the environment, Quality Journal
2. Methods of chemical and electrochemical analyses
3. Spectrometric analyses
4. Gases in metals, mechanical testing of castings
5. Physical testing
6. Operational-technological testing
7. Machinability, fracture mechanics
8. Non-destructive testing - ultrasonic and electromagnetic testing
9. Ultrasound and radiography
11. Isotopes, visual inspection
12. Behaviour of defects under stressing
13. Quality manual

Laboratory exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Antonín Záděra, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Visit to a spectrometry laboratory
2. Ultrasound - defects, mechanical properties
3. Measuring residual stress, E-modulus
4. Measuring residual stress radiographically
5. Mechanical testing
6. Non-destructive testing, electromagnetic testing
7. X-ray application
8. Statistics software Q-DAS
9. Metrology for laboratories
10. Manual of quality
11. Manual of quality
12. Selection of foundry materials
13. Awarding the course-unit credit