Course Details

Environment and Trasportation Structures

Academic Year 2024/25

VNC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction into transportation structures problems, hygiene standards and regulations. 2. Aims and physical principles of measurements and devices. 3. Types of measuring sensors, principles of electronical measurements of physical quantities. 4. Multi-channel measurements, measuring software, principles of data recorded elaboration and proportional dependencies on various quantities. 5. Measurements of mechanical and fatigue material properties within transportation structures, measurements, analyses and modelling of mechanical exertion, static and dynamic phenomena. 6. Measuring, modelling and analysis of temperature and thermal fields. 7. Measurements and analyses of noise and trembling. Comparison of measuring and modelling techniques. Prediction of noise levels from road, rail transport and air transport. 8. Modal analyses, comparison of measuring and modelling techniques. Analyses of measurements. 9. Design and analyses of anti-noise and anti-vibration measurements. 10. Rail defects – measurement, analysis, classification. Track recording cars. 11. Atmosphere contamination originate from road and railway transport, measurement and computation of emission. 12. Roughness measurement, measurement of longitudinal and lateral deformations of road surface, recording cars for alignment measurement and for measurement of road surface properties. 13. Measurement of road bearing capacity, modelling and bearing estimation, complex measurement utilisation for maintenance and renewal of roads.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Calculating emissions from road and rail transport, calculation example 2. The analysis of the measured data, demonstration 3. Measurement and analysis of noise from road traffic, practical demonstration 4. Measurement and analysis of noise from rail, demonstration 5. Measurement and analysis of vibration from road traffic, practical demonstration 6. Analysis of noise from traffic, creating noise maps, calculation example 7. Analysis of noise from traffic, creating noise maps, calculation example 8. Analysis of noise from traffic, creating noise maps, calculation example 9. An action plan - noise from traffic 10. Sound insulation of walls and windows, measurement and analysis 11. Basic noise and anti-vibration measures (road and rail) and a comparison sample application 12. Credit test