Course Details

Construction Machines

Academic Year 2024/25

BWB009 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Mechanisation of construction processes. Partial and comprehensive mechanisation. Degrees of mechanisation. Performance of construction machinery. Performance of sets of machines. Control and driving of construction machinery. Mechanisation of groundwork. Technologies used in groundwork. Drilling of rocks and drilling technologies. Machines for manufacturing, transporting and processing concrete mixtures. Machines for building and altering transport and utility infrastructure. Transport and handling. Mechanisation of demolition work. Recycling of materials. Finishing work. Harvesting and processing of timber. Safety at work, ecology.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge technology of construction processes, occupational safety in civil engineering.

Aims

·Providing the students with complete overview of function, principle and application of machinery and equipment in production of building materials. Individual machines from rocks mining, transportation, treatment, homogenisation up to transportation of raw materials into the plant itself are described. The subject deals with all machines for raw material processing in the production of mortars, raw ceramics, light building materials, concrete goods. The stress is laid on automation and robotics application in production of building materials.
The students will master the objective of the course, i.e. mechanization and automation in building industry, machines and equipment for earthworks, for transportation and assembly, concreting and masonry works and engineering works.

Basic Literature

MARŠÁL Petr. Stavební stroje. Brno: CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2774-4

(cs)
MOTYČKA, Vít a ČERNÝ, Jaromír. Věžové jeřáby v pozemním stavitelství. Brno: CERM, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7204-505-1 (cs)
HENKOVÁ, Svatava. Stavební stroje. Brno: VUT v Brně, 2017. Studijní opora

(cs)

Recommended Reading

KAŠPAR, Milan a VOŠTOVÁ, Věra. Lasery ve stavebnictví a navigace strojů. Praha: Informační centrum ČKAIT, 2001. ISBN 80-86364-61-5

(cs)
VANĚK, Antonín. Strojní zařízení pro stavební práce. Praha: Sobotáles, 2001. ISBN: 8090168418

(cs)
STACK, Barbara. Encyclopaedia of Tunneling, Minning and Drilling Equipment. Hobart, Australia: Muden Publishing Company,, 1995. ISBN 095877112X

(en)
ZAPLETAL, Ivan a BŘOUŠEK, Miloš a kol.. Inženýrské stavby – technologie. Bratislava: STU v Bratislavě, 1998. ISBN 80-227-1156-X

(sk)
VANĚK, Antonín. Moderní strojní technika a technologie zemních prací. Praha: Academia, 2003. ISBN: 80-200-1045-9 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject. Mechanisation of construction work, basic structural elements.
  • 2. Presentation of the relationships between the work done by construction machines from the point of view of technical procedures.
  • 3. Production and conveyance of energy.
  • 4. Groundwork and work with rocks.
  • 5. Production, transportation and processing of fresh concrete.
  • 6. Vertical transportation and handling.
  • 7. Horizontal transportation and handling.
  • 8. Finishing work.
  • 9. Utility and transportation infrastructure.
  • 10. Demolition, recycling.
  • 11. Harvesting and processing of wood, safety at work, ecology.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1:Acquainting students with the subject and requirements. Individual assignment of machin
  • 2:Assignment of task 1 – Dozers performance, consultations.
  • 3:Assignment of task 2 – Loaders performance, consultations.
  • 4:Assignment of task 3 – Excavators performance, consultations.
  • 5:Assignment of task 4 – Machinery set design for earthworks, consultations.
  • 6:Excursion – Machines for earthworks.
  • 7:Assignment of task 5 – Machinery set design for removal of materials, consultations.
  • 8:Consultations.
  • 9:Excursion – Machines for vertical transfer
  • 10:Final consultation of machine set design for the assigned technological stage.
  • 11:Test, submission of assignments.