Course Details

Railway Structures 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BNA003 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289821

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its structural layers – basic terms, types and design of railway substructure.
  • 2. Design of structural layers in compliance with SŽDC S4 regulation, DORNII method, protection against frost.
  • 3. Geosynthetics. Improved and stabilized soils. Earth formation.
  • 4. Earth formation slope and its stability. Protection of embankments and cuts. Earth formation drainage.
  • 5. Diagnostic methods and assessment, failures and repair works.
  • 6. Railway superstructure, structure development, rails.
  • 8. Assembly of rail joints. Sleepers.
  • 9. Construction of continuous welded rail, rail welding methods. Continuous welded rail maintenance.
  • 10. Switches and crossing, types, turnout parts. Terms, geometry of set of switches and common crossings. Manufactured types and notation.
  • 11. Setting out turnout on a curved track.
  • 12. The single turnout, stock rail, switch rail (blade), common and crossings, sleepers, fastenings systems. Operating and locking systems. Crossings and slip points.
  • 13. Turnout collections. Cross overs, connection of parallel track.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, specifying the project of a section of railway track
  • 2. Drawings, format and content project no. 1.
  • 3. Project no. 1 consultations.
  • 4. Project no. 1 submitting.
  • 5. Design of constructive layers and their evaluation according to Railway Infrastructure Administration regulation, DORNII method, frost protection.
  • 6. Earth formation, drainage, walls.
  • 7. Drawings, format and content project no. 2.
  • 8. Technical report, project no. 2 consultations.
  • 9. Project no. 2 consultations.
  • 10. Review of track superstructure components.
  • 11. Continuous welded rail. Project no. 2 submitting.
  • 12. Setting out turnout on a curved track.
  • 13. Crossovers, the design of branching into parallel tracks. Submitting of calculations, credit.