Casting and Joining Technologies

Recommended Prerequisites

Materials Structure and Properties, Mechanical Technology I, Materials Science, Heat Transmission.

Teaching Methods

Classes run under theoretical and theoretical-practical modes. In lectures are presented the main concepts and technologies associated with the concepts. In practical classes some aspects are more detailed by using audiovisual technologies and practical exercises are performed in class or lab. Students participate actively in the process of formation, being asked to present their solutions to problems and works distributed. The classes are further complemented with visits to companies.

Learning Outcomes

The aim is to teach the fundamentals of the technologies for production of parts and structures by casting and welding. The students will acquire skills on the key technologies and aspects of design and production of parts using permanent and non-permanent molds. They will also acquires knowledge concerning the key technologies for fusion welding and solid state welding, the selection criteria for industrial application of these technologies, and fundamentals about the main non-destrutive control tests. The aim of this discipline is to develop instrumental skills (oral and written communication and problem solving), personal (critical thinking) as well as systemic competences (apply in practice the theoretical knowledge and development of self-criticism and self-assessment) essential to solve engineering problems in this area.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Principles of casting technologies. Influence of the solidification mode in production of parts. Casting technologies. Selection of casting technologies. Principles of design of patterns and moulds. Casting defects. Fundamentals of fusion and solid state welding processes. Welding and thermal cutting technologies of materials. Solid state welding processes. Economic issues. Quality control of castings or welded structures.

Head Lecturer(s)

Dulce Maria Esteves Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

D.M Rodrigues; Fundamentos de Tecnologias de Fundição, Universidade de Coimbra, 2007.

A. Loureiro, Notas de Tecnologia dos Processos de Ligação, Universidade de Coimbra, 2010.

J.F.O. Santos e L. Quintino, Processos de Soldadura, Vol. I e II, Edições ISQ, 1993

R. W. Messler, Joining of Materials and Structures, Elsevier 2004

Francisco José Gomes da Silva, Tecnologia da Soldadura, PUBLINDÚSTRIA, 2016.