632-0709/01 – History of the Metalcasting Industry (DHS)
Gurantor department | Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Vlasta Bednářová, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Tomáš Elbel, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 1990/1991 | Year of cancellation | 2013/2014 |
Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
student wil be able to describe development of metal melting and casting technologies;
student wil be able to form a time axis of development;
student wil be able to identify individual prehistorical and historical civilization centres;
student wil be able to demonstrate examples of important artefacts from individual historical development phases.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Summary
Concise development of metallurgy and foundry from the Chalcolithic Age over
the Bronze Age and the Iron Age up to the artistic performances of Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Crete, Greece and Roma. The plastic art of the early and supreme
Middle Ages, of the Renaissance and Baroque. The sculpture of the 19th and
20th century in our country and in the world.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
TYLECOTE R. F.: A History of Metallurgy, The Institut of Materials 1992
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
3 classified seminar papers and defence
1 classified terminal project and defence
E-learning
address where pedagogs could be contacted http://staff.vsb.cz/
Other requirements
Nejsou zadány další požadavky na studenta.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1.-2. prehistoric metallurgy, civilization centres , Midle East, Egypt, India,China, Grece, Rome, melting techniques, molding techniques
3. Seminary – significant prehistoric cast artefacts
4. Copper metallurgy from prehistory to modern period,
5. Seminary - significant bronze object of art
6.-7. History of bell casting – material, design, molding material, molding techniques, significant world bells, significant bell founders
8. History of iron metalurgy , direct reduction of the iron ore, melting techniques
9. History of cast iron, melting, molding, use of castings
10. Visit of museum Frýdlant art cast iron
11. Seminary- significant architectural cast iron monument, sculptures
12. malleable iron, cast steel beginning
13. History of mining education, VŠB history
14. Final seminary, defence of semestral papers
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
Předmět neobsahuje žádné hodnocení.