Course detail

Project, Design and Logistics of Transport and Handling Equipment

FSI-QLDAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course introduces students to the basics of construction of earth moving machines, about the engine drives of travelling and working mechanisms. The course also includes the physical fundamentals of the uncoupling process and numerical solution using DEM analysis. The course introduces with the working technology of the earthmoving machines, types of earthmoving machines and the latest technology of control and driving of the earthmoving machines.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

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 a technical mechanics, physics, higher mathematics, machine parts and their mechanism, physics of the materials and principles of the electrotechnical engineering.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The verification of the knowledge acquired in the course: Written exam followed by an oral exam proofreading.

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

Aims

The aim of this course is make students acquainted with the working technology of the earthmoving machines, types of the earthmoving machines according to assembly groups, and common structural dispose of the earthmoving machines. Students will learn about design of the working and driving assembly according to force requirements, and the latest technology of the control and driving of the earthmoving machines.
Ability to design a conception of the earthmoving machines, force proportion on the working device with a respect to a working technology. Furthermore, the student will be able to design the geometry and kinematics of the working tool of the earth moving machine in relation to numerical physical simulations of bulk materials using DEM and MBD theory. They will be able to design geometry and kinematics of the working device. They will also design of the optimal technological assembly for carrying out earthwork and determine their theoretical, technical and operational reliability.

Study aids

The study documents are listed in the e-learning support of the course.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BIGOŠ, Peter, Jozef KUĽKA, Melichar KOPAS a Martin MANTIČ. Teória a stavba zdvíhacích a dopravných zariadení. Košice: TU v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, 2012. Edícia vedeckej a odbornej literatúry (Technická univerzita v Košiciach). ISBN 9788055311876. (SK)
GHIANI, Gianpaolo., Gilbert LAPORTE a Roberto. MUSMANNO. Introduction to logistics systems planning and control. Hoboken, NJ, USA: J. Wiley, c2004. ISBN 0470849177. (EN)
PERNICA, Petr. Logistika pro 21. století: (Supply chain management). Praha: Radix, 2005. ISBN 8086031594. (CS)
PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Průmyslová logistika. Praha: Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006. ISBN 80-01-03-449-6. (CS)
PTÁČEK, Petr a Aleš KAPLÁNEK. Přeprava nákladu v silniční nákladní dopravě. Brno: CERM, 2002. ISBN 8072042572. (CS)
RAJA G. KASILINGAM. Logistics and transportation: design and planning. 2. ed. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer, 2000. ISBN 0412802902. (EN)
RAJA G. KASILINGAM. Logistics and transportation: design and planning. 2. ed. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer, 2000. ISBN 0412802902. (EN)
TONCHIA, Stefano. Industrial project management: planning, design, and construction. Berlin: Springer, c2008. ISBN 978-3-540-77542-3. (EN)

Recommended reading

BIGOŠ, Peter, Jozef KUĽKA, Melichar KOPAS a Martin MANTIČ. Teória a stavba zdvíhacích a dopravných zariadení. Košice: TU v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, 2012. Edícia vedeckej a odbornej literatúry (Technická univerzita v Košiciach). ISBN 9788055311876. (SK)
GHIANI, Gianpaolo., Gilbert LAPORTE a Roberto. MUSMANNO. Introduction to logistics systems planning and control. Hoboken, NJ, USA: J. Wiley, c2004. ISBN 0470849177. (EN)
PERNICA, Petr. Logistika pro 21. století: (Supply chain management). Praha: Radix, 2005. ISBN 8086031594. (CS)
PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Průmyslová logistika. Praha: Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006. ISBN 80-01-03-449-6. (CS)
PTÁČEK, Petr a Aleš KAPLÁNEK. Přeprava nákladu v silniční nákladní dopravě. Brno: CERM, 2002. ISBN 8072042572. (CS)
RAJA G. KASILINGAM. Logistics and transportation: design and planning. 2. ed. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer, 2000. ISBN 0412802902. (EN)
TONCHIA, Stefano. Industrial project management: planning, design, and construction. Berlin: Springer, c2008. ISBN 978-3-540-77542-3. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Malášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.Handling process and handling equipments, quantitative factors of handling process.
2.Handling equipment - conveyors.
3.Handling equipment - cranes, industrial trucks.
4.Positioning equipments, storage unit and forming equipment.
5.Storage equipment, identification and control equipment.
6.Material flow and its analysis, methods of analysis of the material handling.
7.Mathematical expression of the handling-transport problem.
8.Project documentation of material handling systems.
9.Method Systematic Handling Analyses.
10.Logistics in sphere material handling.
11.Possibilities of simulating of handling processes.
12.Simulation languages and their application by simulating of the handling processes.
13.Simulation languages and their application by simulating of the handling processes.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jiří Malášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.Solution of handling-transport problem - index methods.
2.Solution of handling-transport problem - method VAM.
3.Solution of handling-transport problem - optical method.
4.Solution of handling-transport problem (individual tasks).
5.Solution of optimised material flow for determined production scheme.
6.Solution of optimised material flow for determined production scheme.
7.Solution of optimised material flow (individual tasks).
8.Analyses of material flow (processes and possibilities of realization).
9.The numerical simulation program (structure, function of objects).
10.The numerical simulation program (simulating of systems and subsystems).
11.The numerical simulation program (possibilities of model controls).
12.The numerical simulation program (animation of model).
13.Simulating of handling process.