Course detail
Supporting Structures of Machines
FSI-QNS Acad. year: 2016/2017 Winter semester
The course familiarises students with the theoretical basis of structural mechanics calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering. Its aim is for students to get a particular picture of the tension and deformation state of the arbitrary point of the supporting structure. The course addresses the problems of the structures deformations, statically indeterminate problems, moving loads of structures, solution of thin-walled bars, principles and applications of the final elements
method in the field.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
7
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Calculation methods applicable in the design of supporting structures of building and preparation machines and plants in transport and handling engineering.
Principles and applications of the final elements method in the field.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the course is conditional on the basic knowledge of technical mechanics, physics and higher mathematics.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. Part of the course can be excursions to the companies, which manufacture or operate the equipments from the thematic area of education.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The examination has a written and oral part. Written part of the exam is evaluated by 50 points; it is necessary to achieve at least 25 points to be accepted for the oral part. Oral exam is evaluated independently and it is the same weight as the written part.
Aims
The aim of the course is to extend the existing knowledge of mechanics and apply it to the problems of supporting structures of building and transport machines, it includes computer support.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the exercises actively and worked out assigned projects.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-ADI: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Basic terms used in the theory of supporting structures
2. Analysis of statically determinate structures
3. Movable load, influence lines.
4. Movable loads.
5. The force method
6. Statically indeterminate structures
7. Symmetry and asymmetry
8. The displacement method
9. The displacement method
10. FEM: introduction
11. FEM: shape functions
12. FEM: materials
13. The torsion of thin, open sections
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Recapitulate
2. Analysis of truss structures
3. Movable load, Influence lines.
4. Movable loads.
5. Analysis of statically determinate structures
6. The force method
7. The force method
8. The displacement method
9. The displacement method
10. FEM
11. FEM
12. The torsion of thin, open sections
13. FEM: examples