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Foundry Automation

Teaching: 2 - Partially 1 (Partially in English - lessons & excercies held in Croatian, materials & exam in English)

ECTS: 5

Level: Graduate

Semester: Winter

Prerequisites:

None

Load:

Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
30		30	0	0	0	0	0	0

Course objectives:

Problems in foundry layout. Knowledge about foundry machinery.

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Seminar work and presentation 60% Oral exam 40%

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

The interaction with students during class and during case study presentation understanding of the material and the acquisition of competencies and skills in accordance with the learning outcomes is verified.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

After successfully mastering the course students will be able to: - Analyze and compare types of foundries - Analyze and compare machines used in an automated foundry - Choose the method of castings" quality control - Design a plan for automated foundry (for gray cast iron, investment casting, centrifugal casting or die-casting) - Recommend the possibility of casting process improvement from an environmental point of view - Provide the possibility of optimizing the casting in accordance with the development trends

Lectures

1. Clasification and foundry types.

2. Gray Iron foundry.

3. Automated moulding lines.

4. Mould mixers.

5. Foundry sand reclamation.

6. Furnaces.

7. Pouring machines, molten metal transport.

8. Cleaning machines.

9. Investment casting foundry

10. Centrifugal casting foundry

11. Pressure casting foundry.

12. Casting quality control.

13. Foundry process optimalizations.

14. Ecologic requirements.

15. Foundry development.

Exercises

1. Gray Iron Foundry process

2. Investment casting Foundry process

3. Pressure casting Foundry process

4. Centrifugal casting foundray process

5. Exercise FOUNDRY LAYOUT

6. Exercise FOUNDRY LAYOUT

7. Exercise FOUNDRY LAYOUT

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Compulsory literature:

Katavić: ljevarstvo
Teh. enc.: Ljevarstvo, Mehanizacija ljevaonica
Bonačić-Mandinić-Budić: Osnove tehnologije kalupljenja

Recommended literature:

Casting, ASM Handbook, Vol. 15, ASM International, 2008.
R. Roller et al, Fachkunde für giessereitechnische Berufe, Europa-Lehrmitel Verlag, 2009.