632-0402 – Technology and Theory of Metalcasting (TTS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Vlasta Bednářová, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
-student wil be able to analyse and compare basic methods of mould- and core-making;
-student wil be able to describe basic processes during forming a casting from pouring it up to metal cooling;
-student wil be able to explain the formation of the most important casting defects;
-student wil be able to describe material and foundry properties of cast metals.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
Casting as a product of the foundry industry, possibilities and limits, engineering and technologic requirements. Mode of castings production from the design to finishing, . Wood and metal patterns making. Molding materials, sand, binders, mold and core making technologies. Review of foundry materials to be used for castings.
Compulsory literature:
Schieg,F.P. : Technology of Metalcasting. American Foundry Society,Des
Plaines,IL 2003.
Recommended literature:
Herfurth,K.;Ketscher,N.;Köhler,M. : Giessereitechnik KOMPAKT ,
Giesserei-Verlag,Düsseldorf
Articles in professional journals, papers of conferences, research reports, theses.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.