Belts, hoses & Footwear Technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Belts, hoses & Footwear Technology (subject code 2182608) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 46 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 (2182608)Unit 1 Conveyer Belting
- 10 Functions of Conveyer belting
- driving gear
- Conveyer belt design
- Choice of belt width & Spread
- Elevator belt design
Unit 2 Belt Construction
- Carcass & insulation
- effect of textile components of Performance
- Belt selection
- Belt joining
- Care & maintenance of belting
- Belt properties
- belt quality grades
Unit 3 Power Transmission Belts
- 10 Flat belts v-belts-main types of power transmission belt- grouped v-forms
- timing belts
- out length belonging
- flat belting
- Belt tension
- Cabled cord
- Care & maintenance of power transmission belts
- Materials in V-belt Composition
- Outline of material processing
- Main points in rubber processing for V-belts
- Characteristics & control factors of SFRR practice of rubber processing
- Preparation for determining vulcanizing conditions
- Cord properties
- cord processing
- practice of cord processing
- post processing
- canvas processing
- Methods for processing unwrapped v-belts: building
- Methods Raw edged v-belts: building
- vulcanization, and cutting
- Methods for processing v-ribbed belts: Control factors of grinding resistance
- practice of grinding
Unit 4 Hoses
- 12 Hose design & construction, Mfg
- Hose fittings & Couplings
- Hydraulic assemblies
- Hose Standardization testing & specification
- care & maintenance of hose
- Different types of hoses and their manufacturing process
Unit 5 Footwear
- 12 Various mfg. processes
- types of adhesives
- Preparation & testing of various adhesives like solvent based rubber
- mfg. of various components like soles
- foot bed, counter, toe, puff
- finishers etc. specialty
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