Course detail

Supporting Structures of Machines I

FSI-QN1 Acad. year: 2021/2022 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.

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

Lecture: 13 x 1 hrs.
Seminars in computer labs: 13 x 1 hrs.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students have to develop individual task consisting of graphic solutions of Cremona diagram and solution by force method.

Language of instruction

Czech

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. Presence in the exercises is obligatory.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 3 credits, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Revision of internal loads resulting effects for statically determinate bar systems.
2. Revision of internal loads resulting effects for statically determinate bar systems.
3. Methods of solution of trusses – Method of Sections.
4. Methods of solution of trusses – Method of Joints.
5. Cremona diagram.
6. Shape stability, buckling, tilting.
7. Shape stability, buckling, tilting.
8. Force method – statically determined structures.
9. Force method – statically indetermined structures.
10. Force method – statically indetermined structures.
11. Using symmetry.
12. Mobile loads on statically determined structures. Influence lines.
13. Mobile loads on statically determined structures. Influence lines.

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Revision of internal loads resulting effects for statically determinate bar systems.
2. Revision of internal loads resulting effects for statically determinate bar systems.
3. Method of Sections.
4. Method of Joints.
5. Cremona diagram.
6. Cremona diagram.
7. Shape stability, buckling, tilting.
8. Force method – statically determined structures.
9. Force method – statically indetermined structures.
10. Force method.
11. Using symmetry.
12. Mobile loads on statically determined structures. Influence lines.
13. Mobile loads on statically determined structures. Influence lines.