Course Details
Field Training (K)
Academic Year 2024/25
BN003 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Field training
1 week, 240 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Day 1-3 Geodetic surveying of track alignment, earth formation and engineering structures, evaluation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Design of new geometry components. Geometry layout of standard turnout, precise levelling of vertical alignment. Geodetic surveying of section of railway station.
Day 4-7 Terrain and present situation surveying. Reconstruction plan - horizontal and vertical alignment, width disposition and cross sections. Design of a crossroad and a parking lot on concrete local conditions. Practical application of diagnostic methods e.g. static loading plate, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 - Catalogue of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with 4-meter beam, roughness of road surface - evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain.
Day 8 Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey. Calculation of bearing capacity of bridge structure.
Day 9 Laying out of new track alignment, laying out respective of fixed points. Practical application of diagnostic methods, static and dynamic loading test.
Day 10 Practical geodetic layout of the designed road project.