Course detail
Transport and Handling Equipment
FSI-EDOAcad. year: 2010/2011
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.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
DIETRICH VON BERG; GÜNTER HOLZWARTH. Krane und Kranbahnen: Berechnung, Konstruktion, Ausführung. 3., neubearb. Aufl. Stuttgart [u.a.]: Teubner, 2001. ISBN 3519252341. (DE)
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2. Palletization and containerization. Means for manipulation with containers.
3. Manipulation in stores. Shelf stowing machines.
4. Trucks (with gas engines, electrical engines)
5. Cranes. The classification of cranes and their use
6. The selected structural elements of cranes
7. The hoisting mechanism
8. The mechanism of crane travel and crane rotation
9. Conveyers with pull element
10. Conveyers without pull element
11. Lifts and escalators
12. Structural elements of lifts
13. Escalators and their elements
Exercise
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2. The traffic technological problem. The Vogel method.
3. The functional calculation of the drive of the chain conveyer
4. Calculation of the rope, rollers and wire rope drums
5. The design of the hoisting mechanism
6. The design of travelling mechanism of the crane
7. The design of the travelling brake of the crane
8. The calculation of the drive of the belt conveyer
9. The calculation of the spiral chute
10. The calculation of the worm conveyor.
11. The calculation of the rollway
12. The excursion to machine at VUT FSI
13. The excursion to underground garages