Course detail

Unconventional Technology

FSI-HNE Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

The course is intended to extend knowledge of the engineering technology, especially of moulding and machining parts, concentrating on the production and working engineering production components. It introduces progressive unconventional technologies
in the interaction: machine – tool – workpiece. For this purpose the student will familiarise with fundamental methodology of the theory for processes of beam method of the machining – laser, plasma, water jet, ultrasonic, electrospark, chemical maschining as typical
representatives of working hard workable material.

Supervisor

Ing. Eva Peterková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Knowledge of fundamental methods of machining and forming. Knowledge of physic on the secondary school level.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide detailed information about technological processes applied for moulding and machining by the use of unconventional technologies. It will predicate possible consequences of these processes and their impact on the post-procedural state of the workpiece from the distinctive level of the integrity of the worked surface. Future technologists and engineers will be provided with the fundamentals necessary for an optimum and qualified decision making in terms of the engineering technology.
The students will get acquainted with their use in the industrial practice for atypical manufacturing processes. They will be able to create production processes and applications of unconventional engineering technologies for new products. They will learn the methodology necessary for determining whether the proposed unconventional technology is economically and ecologically effective.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
branch STG: Manufacturing Technology, 6 credits, compulsory

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
branch STM: Manufacturing Technology and Management in Industry, 6 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to the technological processes of unconventional technologies of moulding, non-solid forming tool

  2. Hydroforming

  3. Forming with using elastic tool

  4. Incremental forming

  5. Technology of laser bending

  6. Rolling-in of tubes

  7. Classification of unconventional methods of machining. Electric erosion – physical principles. Diagrams of electric generators

  8. Electric erosion – wire cutting

  9. Electric erosion – excavating

  10. Technological application of laser cutting, physical principle

  11. Technological application of water jet cutting, physical principle

  12. Technological application of plasma beam cutting, ultrasonic machining, physical principle

  13. Chemical, photochemical, electrochemical machining, chemical principle

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Tube hydroforming – basic concepts

  2. Tube hydroforming – active and passive action of pistons

  3. Tube hydroforming – linear expanding

  4. Forming with using elastomer

  5. Incremental forming

  6. Laser bending

  7. Diagrams of electric generators

  8. Electric erosion of wire cutting – technological conditions, examples of the design of tools, ways of setting in the programme Kovoprog

  9. Electric erosion of wire cutting – excursion in a production factory

  10. Technology of laser cutting – excursion in a production factory

  11. Technology of water jet cutting – excursion in a production factory

  12. Technology of plasma beam cutting – examples of usage, comparison with laser beam and water jet

  13. Technology of ultrasonic machining, chemical, photochemical, electrochemical machining, – examples of usage