Design of Material Handling Equipment
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Design of Material Handling Equipment Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Design of Material Handling Equipment (subject code 3171928) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3171928)Unit 1 Introduction
- Objectives of material handling system
- Principal groups of materials handling equipment and classification
- Scope of Material Handling
- Criteria for selection of Material Handling Equipment’s
- Basic kind of material handling problems
- Various methods to analyze material Handling problems
Unit 2 Conveyor Design
- Introduction to Apron conveyors
- Pneumatic conveyors
- Belt Conveyors
- Chain conveyors
- Screw conveyors and vibratory conveyors and their applications
- Design of Belt conveyor- Belt selection procedure and calculation of drop energy
- Idler design
Unit 3 Design of bucket and Cage Elevator
- Types of Bucket Elevator
- Design of Bucket Elevator- loading and bucket arrangements
- Cage elevators
- shaft way, guides
- counter weights
Unit 4 Design of Hoists
- Design of hoisting elements: Welded and roller chains – Hemp and wire ropes - Design of ropes
- pulley systems
- sprockets and drums
- Load handling attachments
- Design of forged hooks and eye hooks – crane grabs - lifting magnets - Grabbing attachments - Design of arresting gear -Brakes: shoe
- band and cone types
Unit 5 Design of Cranes
- Hand-propelled and electrically driven overhead traveling cranes
- Traveling mechanisms of cantilever and monorail cranes
- goliath cranes
- design considerations for structures of rotary cranes with fixed radius
- fixed post and overhead traveling cranes
- Stability of stationary rotary and traveling rotary cranes
Unit 6 Packaging and storage of bulk materials
- Steps for design of packages
- protective packaging
- testing the physical characteristics of packaging
- container testing
- types of storage and industrial containers
- Automatic guided vehicles
- Automatic storage and retrieval system. 04 Subject Code: 3171928 w.e.f
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