Courses

Construction Machines

General

Course Contents

Types and uses of construction machinery, evaluation and selection criteria.
Rollers: Ground and asphalt compaction, rollers with drums and rollers with tyres, vibration and oscillation of drums.
Tractors, wheeled and tracked: drawbar pull efficiency, steering systems for tracked tractors.
Loaders, wheeled and tracked: propulsion and loading systems.
Bulldozers: design and setup of the blade and the ripper, transmission and steering systems.
Graders: design and setup of the blade, frame, axles and transmission systems.
Excavators: frame and carriage, propulsion systems, excavation methods and systems, tools.

Educational Goals

– Understanding the operation and the principles of design of the main construction machines (rollers, tractors, loaders, bulldozers, graders, excavators), their propulsion, transmission, steering and braking systems, as well as their working systems.
– Developing the ability to evaluate, modify and maintain construction machines.
– Developing the ability to select the appropriate construction machines for a given task.

General Skills

Research, analysis and synthesis of data and information
Project design
Decision making
Autonomous work
Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking

Teaching Methods

Lectures
Projected presentations
E-mail communication
Online synchronous and asynchronous teaching platform (moodle)

Students Evaluation

Assessment Language: Greek
Final written examination

Recommended Bibliography

https://moodle.teithe.gr/pluginfile.php/76031/mod_resource/content/0/ΟΧΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΕΧΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΡΓΩΝ.pdf
Technical manuals of Caterpillar, Bomag, Hamm, Volvo, Komatsu etc.