Course Details

Construction Machines

Academic Year 2024/25

BWB009 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

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.