Course Details
Railway Structures 1
Academic Year 2025/26
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.