Course: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Mechanisms

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Course title Hydraulic and Pneumatic Mechanisms
Course code KKS/TKM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Duník Miroslav, Ing.
  • Čermák Roman, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas: basic components, principles and calculations; generators and motors, power control components, accumulators, multipliers; their characteristics, use and structure; efficiency; elementary parameters of energy media, especially oils; cleaning, packing and cooling of fluids; effects of gas on the behaviour of hydraulic circuit mechanisms, placing and linking of components; control of motor speeds, hydrodynamic shock, dynamics of hydraulic mechanisms, hydraulic and pneumatic moving seatings; design of hydraulic circuit functional diagrams. Lectures: 1. Organization of the course. Importance of the subject for the practice. Definition of the power fluid mechanism (PFM, it's structure. Fundamental equations. Introduction of the PFM. Advantages and disadvantages of the PFM. Classification of PFM according to energy carrier and technological requirements. 2. - 4. Pneumatic and electropneumatic systems. Pneumatic elements, classification, applications. External lecturers (SMC, FESTO) - current development in pneumatic elements. 5. Fluid based transmission systems. Open and closed hydraulic circuits (HC). Hydrogenerators (HG) and hydromotors (HM). Transmission systems according to the HM motion. Energy carriers and their main parameters. Loading of fluids, requirements and proper selection. Seals and gaskets, cleaning. Fluid properties. Energy transfer by means of fluids. 6. Distribution of pressurised fluid in the HC. Tanks. Losses in the HC. 7. Hydraulic elements, classification, applications. 8. Conrol of hydraulic mechanisms. Electrohydraulic servovalves. 9. Design of complex hydraulic cicuit. 10. - 11. Dynamics of the PFM, modeling, simulation. 12. Fluid bearings - hydrodynamical and hydrostatical bearings 13. Final overview of the course. Discussion to the exam topics. Time reserve. Seminars: 1. Graphical symbols of fluid system components. Principles of function of the selected pneumatic and hydraulic elements. Rules for creation of diagrams for hydraulic and pneumatic circuits. 2. Pneumatic circuits creation. 3. Practical tasks - connecting of pneumatic circuits (FESTO Didactic). 4. Electropneumatic circuits - fundamental circuits, logical functions, combinational and sequentional circuits. 5. Control of electropneumatic circuits. Combinational and sequentional circuits. Programming PLCs via functional blocks. 6. Selection and dimensioning of elements of pneumatics and electropneumatics circuits. 7.- 8. Practical tasks - connecting of electropneumatic circuits (SMC Pneu panel), circuits with PLC (Siemens, Mitsubishi, Hirata) 9.- 13. Semester project topics selections, working on semester projects and final presentation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Lecture with practical applications, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration, Individual study, Self-study of literature
  • Contact hours - 65 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 50 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 10 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to gain further professional knowledge by self-study
to use independently teoretical knowledge from mechanics, stress and strain, machine elements and fundamentalds of design in designing of machines and equipment
Knowledge in the range of the previous study at the university is supposed.
to use his/her professional knowledge at least in one foreign language
Skills
to use independently his/her knowledge of fundamental theoretical disciplines in solving of practical tasks in the field of designing machines and equipment
to gain further professional knowledge by self-study
to use his/her professional skills at least in one foreign language
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to evaluate pros and cons of power fluid systems
to gain further proffesional knowledge by self-study
to use his/her professional knowledge at least in one foreign language
to communicate information about problems connected with applications of power fluid mechanisms
Skills
to use his/her theoretical knowledge to solve practical tasks
to gain further proffesional experience
to design selected powr fluidl subsystems with use of gained theoretical and practical knowledge
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Self-study of literature
Individual study
One-to-One tutorial
Interactive lecture
Project-based instruction
Students' portfolio
E-learning
Skills
Practicum
Skills demonstration
Project-based instruction
Students' portfolio
E-learning
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Test
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Recommended literature
  • Stlačený vzduch a jeho využití / SMC. Brno, 200-.
  • Fojtášek, K., Hružík, L., Bureček, A., Stonawski, E., Dvořák, L., Vašina, M. Tekutinové mechanismy - Praktické úlohy a základy pneumatiky. VŠB-TU Ostrava. 2022.
  • L., Bureček, A., Stonawski, E., Dvořák, L., Vašina, M. Tekutinové mechanismy - Hydraulické mechanismy. VŠB-TUO. 2022.
  • Matthies, Hans Jürgen; Renius, Karl Theodor. Einführung in die Őlhydraulik. Vieweg Taubner Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3835100513.
  • Mottl, Karel. Tekutinové mechanismy : podklady k přednáškám. 2. uprav. vyd. Plzeň : ZČU, 1993. ISBN 80-7082-095-0.
  • Pavolok, B., Hružík, L., Bova, M. Hydraulická zařízení strojů. Ostrava : VŠB-TU Ostrava. 2007.
  • Pivoňka, Josef. Tekutinové mechanismy. Vyd. 1. Praha : SNTL, 1987.
  • Prokeš, Josef; Vostrovský, Jiří. Hydraulické a pneumatické mechanismy. 1. vyd. Praha : SNTL, 1988.


Study plans that include the course
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