Knowledge and Maintenance Technology of Army Vehicles

1. explain the basic concepts of maintenance and reliability
2. apply the standard of maintenance of technical material resources in the CAF
3. prepare a system of maintenance in the CAF units
4. prepare maintenance time plans in CAF units
5. distinguish the specific maintenance of combat and non-combat vehicles
6. prepare a support plan of maintenance of combat and non-combat vehicles

Part of the classes will be held at the FSB in the Laboratory for IC Engines and Motor Vehicles

Part of the classes will be held at the FSB in the Laboratory for IC Engines and Motor Vehicles

1. Lectures: Introduction, historical review of maintenance technologies, basic concepts from the field of maintenance of vehicles and combat equipment Seminar: Introduction to the basic concepts of vehicles and combat equipment maintenance
2. Lectures: Terms of exploitation,basic terms for performance of internal combustion engines Seminar: Determining the characteristic cycle of exploitation vehicles
3. Lectures: Internal combustion engine components - function and mode of operation Seminar: Planning and development of maintenance systems of vehicles
4. Lectures: Internal combustion engine systems - lubrication Seminar: Monitoring the status of motor vehicles and combat techniques
5. Lectures: Internal combustion engine systems - cooling system, mixture preparation, exhaust system Seminar: Diagnostics and maintenance of motor vehicles
6. Lectures: Monitoring of the motor vehicles and combat techniques status; Processes in a motor vehicle during exploitation Seminar: Basic tasks in the field of diagnostics of internal combustion engines
7. Lectures: Mid exam Seminar: Mid exam
8. Lectures: Electrical systems of motor vehicles and combat techniques Seminar: Electrical starters, Electrical power supply (dynamo, alternators, starter batteries)
9. Lectures: Power transmission systems for motor vehicles and combat systems Seminar: Fuel injection systems, conventional ignition systems, electronic ignition systems
10. Lectures: Power transmission system elements: clutches and gearboxes Seminar: Diesel fuel injection systems Electronically regulated high pressure pumps, Common Rail
11. Lectures:Power distribution components Seminar: Sensors (temperature sensors, inductive sensors, Hall sensors, mass and volumetric gas flowmeters)
12. Lectures: Chassis of motor vehicles and combat equipment: wheels; suspension; control system; brakes Seminar: Lighting systems of motor vehicles
13. Lectures: Computer support to maintenance systems, determination of technical condition of motor vehicles Seminar: Safety systems - ABS, TCS, ESP (Antilock Braking Systems, Traction Control, Electronic Stability Program)
14. Lectures: Testing of engine performance and motor vehicle testing grounds; Regulations on motor vehicles, Croatian regulations, international homologation regulations Seminar: Testing of vehicles performance - the vehicle; Testing of internal combustion engines on the brake (laboratory)
15. Lectures: Final exam Seminar: Final exam