Design and Process Engineering
· Designing, construction, calculation, technology of manufacturing, technical preparation of manufacturing including assembly and testing,
· Thermal and nuclear power plant devices such as steam and combustion turbines, steam generators, steam power plants and heating plants including nuclear power stations, industrial power engineering and their environmental aspects,
· Water turbines, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic pumps, piping systems, hydroelectric power plants, and pumping stations,
· Machinary and devices for chemical industry, food-stuff industry, and biotechnological treatment lines,
· Construction, modelling and theoretical studies of machines and devices for cutting, forming machines, industrial robots, and manipulators,
· Machine parts and mechanisms, methodology of designing machine elements and working mechanisms of general application with consideration of stochastic qualities of inputs, including the application of special types of machines and devices,
· Cars, vans and lorries, buses, trailers, semi-trailers, and motorcycles,
· Combustion engines for all types of vehicle drives, simulation of combustion engine thermomechanical systems, dynamics of driving gear, engine accessories, ecology,
· Machines and devices for in-plant handling of material and handling between operations, for the mining and transport of building materials, for passenger conveyance in buildings,
· Aerodynamic calculation and designing, flight mechanics, fatigue and durability of aircraft constructions, aeroelasticity of aircraft,
· Quality of machine industry production.

prof. Ing. Václav Píštěk, DrSc.

1. Design of the standardization methodologies for the EMA actuators

   The aim of the dissertation thesis is of the design standardization methodologies for developing electromechanical actuator (EMA), deployed in aviation applications, including proposal modularity electrical parts. The proposed procedures will be verified on the development of EMA with a brushless DC motor (EC motor) as an actuator. Part of the thesis will also design HW modular actuator control electronics, at which the proposal is to take into account the condition of maximum modularity of functional units and the use of commercially available components, provided that the same reliability and durability as components commonly used in aviation. The defined requirements according to the standard RTCA DO-160G has to be also respected by HW design. The HW solution will be verified by proposed methods of HALT and AAT tests in order to verify the required lifetime and robustness under the defined extreme operating conditions.

   Tutor: Singule Vladislav, doc. Ing., CSc.

2. Efficient building of machine tools

   In the Czech Republic is predominant the production of medium and large machine tools. The more machine tool larger is, the machine building process moor time consuming is and takes a significant time fund of contract realisation. Therefore reduce the time needed to build the machines form an important aspect of competitiveness. The aim of this work is to develop a common methodology for effective construction of machine tools, which take into account all relevant stages of the life cycle of the machine and the current demands on the machine asked both customers and legislative environment. The developed methodology aims to propose the use of new advanced technologies in order to reduce the time of construction machines and get feedback in pre-production stages of the life cycle of the machine tool.

   Tutor: Blecha Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., FEng.

3. Human factors of reliability

   The topic is focused on the problems of human factors in reliability (human, machine, technical equipment, working environment) in all phase of the life. The individual parts of the working system and their interaction will be discussed. The factors which create the human performance will be discussed, and additionally, the analysis of failure-free human activity, human failure generation identification and the analysis of human failures will be investigated with a goal to determine the countermeasures. The analysis and the evaluation of the existing approaches are assumed, also the development of procedures and the new methods are discussed which will be verified in the specific cases in the mechanical engineering practice. The PhD thesis will be based consistently on the requirements raised to INDUSTRY 4.0 (the fourth industrial revolution).

   Tutor: Hammer Miloš, doc. Ing., CSc.

4. Prediction of thermal behavior of machine tools

   In the Czech Republic is predominant the production of medium and large machine tools. The machine more is, the more responsive to changes in ambient temperature, which may have a negative effect on the working accuracy of the machine. The goal of PhD work will be to analyze the parameters affecting the thermal behavior of the machine (eg. external and internal thermal effects, construction machinery, refrigeration equipment, etc.). Based on the results of the analysis will provide feedback to the pre-production stages of the life cycle of machine tool designed predictive system usable for example for thermal regulation or thermally stable design of the machine.

   Tutor: Blecha Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., FEng.

5. Vibration and related condition monitoring methods of machines and technical devices

   Analysis of possibilities of using modern vibration and other diagnostic methods for creation a maintenance management system of a selected machinery type. The attention will be concentrated mainly on vibrodiagnostics, thermodiagnostics, noise diagnostics and electrodiagnostics, on application of the methods above for individual machines or their parts and on possibilities of assessment of the obtained results. The PhD thesis will be based consistently on the requirements raised to INDUSTRY 4.0 (the fourth industrial revolution).

   Tutor: Jankových Róbert, doc. Ing., CSc.