Course Details

Environment and Trasportation Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

VNC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jaroslav Smutný, Dr.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294910

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