Course Details

Railway Structures 1

Academic Year 2024/25

BNA002 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 3rd year

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, specifying of design of a section double track line. 3. Circle curve, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency. 4. Transition curves, clothoid, cubic parabola. Calculations of track layout of a circle curve with transition curves. 5. Compound curves. Transition curves connecting two circular curves. Reverse curves. 6. Design of parallel tracks. Change of track axis distance. 7. Design parameters regarding the tilting trains. 8. Vertical track alignment 9. Drawings elaboration 10. Consultations 11. Submitting of the study of a section of railway line, credit.