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.