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- 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.