Diploma thesis contains introduction into shell drying, its monitoring and influence on shell properties. The thesis works with the Cyclone machine described further. The shell drying process in the machine and experiments are carried out broadening understanding of functions and parameters of rapid drying process. Experiments comparing courses of drying under respective settings of Cyclone and under common drying in air-conditioned room are carried out. Also mechanical properties of commonly dried shells and shells made by the Cyclone machines are compared. The positive effect of the machine on the ultimate strenght of dried shells and positive effect on the drying speed has been confirmed.

The diploma thesis deals with the design and production of an aluminum injection mold for investment casting. The work briefly describes the technology of investment casting together with a description of the types of molds, their internal arrangement and the most commonly used materials. Another part of the work is devoted to the analysis of aluminum molds machining. Emphasis was placed mainly on those operations, that will be used in production of mold. The practical part describes in detail the process of designing the model and mold, as well as the process of designing production technology. The construction is performed using the program SolidWorks, production technology using the program SolidCam. At the end of the work, the mold is assembled and the functionality of the mold is verified by means of test injection and economic evaluation is made.

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The thesis especially deals with creating a program for PLC to control a casting line. There is described configuration and the parameters setting of the PLC Simatic S7-300 from Siemens. The control application is created in the software tool STEP 7. Production, properties and parameters of plynosilicate are described in this work. Control of the casting line, the PLC program, the used sensors, the optimization of production per hour and mixing of cold and hot water is also described here.

This thesis deals with non-destructive testing (NDT). It Describes two basic thermographic methods, lock-in and pulse thermography. Different types of measurements using Fluke Ti55, points to the possibility of applying these methods in practice. Pulse thermography issue is a substantial part of this work, due to its good applicability. Also, it compares visual testing methods (VIS) and pulse thermography due to measurement with die-casting alloy AC-AlSi9Cu3 (Fe).

Determining accuracy of wax patterns is an important in wide implementing rapid prototyping methods in investment casting. This experiment is comparing wax pattern accuracy produced in classical metal die and silicone mould. It has been found out, that wax patterns produced by the silicone mould are ounly about one or two accuracy steps worse then wax patterns produced by classical metal die.

The object of this diploma thesis is to analyze, persuant to numerical simulation of current technology of production aluminous casting roller-reck V9X, causes of the rise of cold lap and laminations defects. Consequently, to work up a project of variant solution of the shape of casting so, as to come to elimination mentioned defects. This variant solving will be tested with numerical simulation as well. Fruitfulness of these designed changes will be verified by testing molten of the casting. In terms of solve the problem the simulation of cycling of the mold and subsequently the filling of the casting will be effected. During the analyse of filling of the die the first phase of filling will be effected too.It means the movement of the piston throught the chambre. Simulation of solidification of the casting wont be effected because of the type of the defect.

The goal of the diploma thesis is to verify the possibilities of obtaining the casting of the femur component of the customized knee replacement using the technology of Rapid Prototyping and investment casting. To get the wax pattern it is used the method of fabrication the silicon rubber mould. Its optimalization from the wax pattern quality, economy of production and cooling speed aspects is important parameter at repeated production of the wax patterns.

Object of this master’s thesis is accomplished analyze the range of foundry of steel ŽĎAS a.s., Zdar nad Sazavou and make the type massive steel castings and analysis of existing technology foundry and metallurgical defect. The beginning of this master’s thesis is dedicated to the manufacturing of steel foundries range ŽĎAS a.s., Zdar nad Sazavou. The following section is devoted to manufacturing technologies for the production of massive steel castings. In the final part of this thesis are described metallurgical and foundry defects of the typical castings of steel foundry and proposals to eliminate these undesirable defects. End thesis includes a summary of the results and trends in the development of research in the production of massive steel casting.

This diploma theses deals with possibilities of using numerical simulation for optimizing production of highly demanding thin-section casting produced by investment casting process. The casting made of aluminium alloy in which the manufacturing process was very problematic (occurrence of macro and micro shrinkages) has been chosen. By numerical simulation the existing technology has been analysed and based on this the possible reasons for defects found. This was later confirmed also by metallographic examinations. Following to this several options for a new technology were proposed and again by simulation checked their suitability. By comparing all above mentioned options two versions have been chosen in the end which was later tested in production with satisfactory results.