Course Details

Selected Chapters on Railway Structures 1 (DST)

Academic Year 2024/25

CN051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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. Urban railway transport. Types of urban rail transport, basic division. Transport and traffic relationships. 2. Traffic assessment. City public transport in Czech Republic. 3. METRO. Geometric track components, track alignment design parameters. 4. Railway superstructure and substructure of METRO. Switches and crossings. Operation arrangement. 5. Tramway. Geometric track components, track alignment design parameters. 6. Tramway superstructure and substructure of tramway tracks. Switches and crossings. Operation arrangement. 7. Railways in urban regions, integrated transport system. The main demands on infrastructure and operation 8. Level crossing, terminology, design and outlook fields. Recent types. 9. High speed tracks. Relationship to other types of rail transport in big cities. 10. High speed tracks, track alignment design parameters. 11. Railway superstructure and substructure on high speed tracks. Slab track, demands on design. Design of slab track substructures. 12. Main types of slab track design. Demands on slab track on bridges, in tunnels, in transitions with ballasted track. Construction and maintenance of high speed tracks. 13. Non-classic railway lines

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Specifying of the first project, guidelines to draw up. 2. Guidelines to design of assembly of turnout in curve with cant. 3. Longitudinal profile of particular tracks and rails. 4. Format and content of drawings – setting out drawing. 5. Submitting of the first project. 6. Specifying of the project of a tramways junction. 7. Design of tramway switches and crossings. 8. Changes of track axes distances. 9. Technical report 10. – 12. Consultation of project. 13. Submitting of the second projects, credit.