Course Details

Mechanization and Realization of Railway Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BNB005 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th 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. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening, justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
  • 2. Ballast cleaners.
  • 3. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions (tamping machines).
  • 4. Ballast regulators, compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizers.
  • 5.Machines for sleeper and rail replacing.
  • 6. Track and switches and crossing panels laying, removal and replacement.
  • 7. Welding machines and continuously welded rail laying.
  • 8. Renewal of rail microgeometry.
  • 9. Organization of track maintenance and possessions.
  • 10. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
  • 11. Measuring and diagnostic systems.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Special vehicles for person transport and material transport. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
  • 2. Ballast cleaners.
  • 3. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions (tamping machines).
  • 4. Ballast regulators, compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizers.
  • 5.Machines for sleeper and rail replacing.
  • 6. Track and switches and crossing panels laying, removal and replacement.
  • 7. Welding machines and continuous welded rail laying.
  • 8. Renewal of rail microgeometry.
  • 9. Organization of track maintenance and possessions.
  • 10. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
  • 11. Measuring and diagnostic systems.