227-0055/01 – Railway Structures (ŽS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Transport Constructions | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 4 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2005/2006 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FAST | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with problems of railway construction and to practice the acquired knowledge and skills. Students will acquire basic knowledge in designing, building and diagnostics of railway construction.
Passing the student will be able to describe and solve basic problems such as tracing, construction of the superstructure, design of sleeper beds, proposals related structures such as drainage structures etc.
Gets ability to formulate problems, to build an elementary design, apply knowledge and skills to solve simple problems in the field of railway construction.
Teaching in Czech Language only
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
In individual lessons Railway Structures subject the student with an introduction to railway lines, railway. stations and sidings, railway problems of diagnostics and provides students the basics of the technological processes work on railways.
Students are gradually introduced to the basic concepts in the field of railway construction, with design elements of the superstructure, alas. substructure, sleeper subsoil drainage, turnouts and crossing structures, with elements of construction equipment, railway stations, the building high-speed lines and elements of the modernization of railways. In this course the student is also familiar with the basic issues related to building railways in special conditions - effects of mining activities in flood area.
Compulsory literature:
Esveld C.: Modern Railway Track, MRT Productions 2001
Tzanakakis K.: The Raiway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag 2013
Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)
Recommended literature:
EN 15273-1:2013 - Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock
EN 13848-6:2013 - Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 70% attendance at the exercises. Absence, up to a maximum of 30%, must be excused and the apology must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides to recognize the reason for the excuse). Tasks assigned on the exercises must be hand in within the dates set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
-Introduction to railway construction (lines, equipment, vehicle, traction)
design principles of railway tracks. Line resistances and resistances driving vehicles
line of constant resistance
-Construction and geometric arrangement of tracks (track, direction and leaning
ratios), the spatial arrangement of the track (gauge, the distance axis tracks
axes crossing distance tracks, distances of buildings from the wheel axis., spatial
CSN arrangement on bridges ...)
Construction-track ...
-Switches and crossings (basic concepts, points for VRT, rail
intersection, ...)
-Substructure (roadbed construction, design principles, building substructure,
drainage ...)
-Crossing railway tracks with roads, water courses and lines, unfortunately.
crossings, track equipment
-Personal, and lay-sorting station (purpose, distribution, equipment, ...), the main
Hills sorting station (principles, technical and construction equipment humps,
Automation KOMPAS).
Railway-building equipment (platforms, subways, footbridge, footbridges,
the platform shelters, station building, přednádraží, warehouses, landfills ...)
Track-industrial plants (purpose, location, types, equipment, ..)
-Rail transport in urban areas, construction of trails, building blocks
-Preparation of construction (pre-production stage, documents, legislation ....)
Track-work (classification, machinery ...), technology, repairs of the railway superstructure and substructure
-Diagnosis of railways
Railway-building in special conditions (area affected by mining activities
construction in flood plains ...)
-Railway network, increasing speed on railways, modernization
railway network in the CR
Exercise:
- Calculation of elements such as circular arcs motive rail route calculation elements
transition curve, detailed calculation points
routes, horizontal and vertical solutions, structural design of the superstructure, reports
superstructure, assembly plans, numerical and graphical solution of a sequence of tracks, Solution
transition of different spacing of rails, switches, transformation points,
Rail connections - JKS proposal in direct, bottom rail - the principles of design, design
sleeper subsoil - Characteristic cross-section of single track (double-track
tracks) - design, processing and presentation of selected articles from the railway issues
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction