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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Railway Structures

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0055/02
Abbreviation ŽS
Course title Railway Structures
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
-Introduction to railway construction (lines, equipment, vehicle, traction)
design principles of railway tracks. Line resistances and resistances driving vehicles
line of constant resistance
-Construction and geometric arrangement of tracks (track, direction and leaning
ratios), the spatial arrangement of the track (gauge, the distance axis tracks
axes crossing distance tracks, distances of buildings from the wheel axis., spatial
CSN arrangement on bridges ...)
Construction-track ...
-Switches and crossings (basic concepts, points for VRT, rail
intersection, ...)
-Substructure (roadbed construction, design principles, building substructure,
drainage ...)
-Crossing railway tracks with roads, water courses and lines, unfortunately.
crossings, track equipment
-Personal, and lay-sorting station (purpose, distribution, equipment, ...), the main
Hills sorting station (principles, technical and construction equipment humps,
Automation KOMPAS).
Railway-building equipment (platforms, subways, footbridge, footbridges,
the platform shelters, station building, přednádraží, warehouses, landfills ...)
Track-industrial plants (purpose, location, types, equipment, ..)
-Rail transport in urban areas, construction of trails, building blocks
-Preparation of construction (pre-production stage, documents, legislation ....)
Track-work (classification, machinery ...), technology, repairs of the railway superstructure and substructure
-Diagnosis of railways
Railway-building in special conditions (area affected by mining activities
construction in flood plains ...)
-Railway network, increasing speed on railways, modernization
railway network in the CR

Exercise:
- Calculation of elements such as circular arcs motive rail route calculation elements
transition curve, detailed calculation points
routes, horizontal and vertical solutions, structural design of the superstructure, reports
superstructure, assembly plans, numerical and graphical solution of a sequence of tracks, Solution
transition of different spacing of rails, switches, transformation points,
Rail connections - JKS proposal in direct, bottom rail - the principles of design, design
sleeper subsoil - Characteristic cross-section of single track (double-track
tracks) - design, processing and presentation of selected articles from the railway issues

Literature

Esveld C.: Modern Railway Track, MRT Productions 2001
Tzanakakis K.: The Raiway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour, Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag 2013
Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)

Advised literature

EN 15273-1:2013 - Railway applications – Gauges – Part 1: General – Common rules for infrastructure and rolling stock
EN 13848-6:2013 - Railway applications - Track — Track geometry quality — Part 6: Characterisation of track geometry quality