Course Details
Railway Structures 1
Academic Year 2024/25
BN001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Railway track geometry components and track alignment design parameters within operation speed 160 km/h. Rail track gauge and gauge widening.
2. Cant, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency.
3. Horizontal track alignment. Transition curves.
4. Nonlinear transition curves.
5. Compound curves. Transition curves connecting two circular curves. Reverse curves.
6. Vertical track alignment, gradients, vertical curves.
7. Track alignment design parameters for operation of tilting body trains.
8. Routing of railway lines, railway track design.
9. Geodetic surveying of track layout, track layout optimization problems.
10. Geodetic layouts and fixing of rail track alignment.
11. Clearances. The centre line distances in open track and in railway stations.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Rail track gauge and gauge widening
2. Cant, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency. Specifying of design of a section double track line.
3. Calculations of track layout of a circle curve with transition curves
4. Compound curves. Transition curves connecting two circular curves. Reverse curves.
5. Vertical track alignment
6. Drawings elaboration
7. Submitting of design of section of double track line. Specifying of study of railway line.
8. Written test
9. Evaluation of track design variants.
10. Drawings and report elaboration
11. Submitting of study of section of railway line, credit.