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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Superstructure and Substructure

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 227-0101/02
Abbreviation ŽSS
Course title Superstructure and Substructure
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator Ing. Leopold Hudeček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lecture:
- Theoretical foundations - track, rail vehicle operating load tracks
- Methods of calculating the bearing capacity of the railway superstructure, course load bearing capacity and assessment of the individual elements of railway superstructure
- Geometric and structural parameters of the track
- Construction of adhesive track and the cog track, tools for increasing of the track stability
- Switches, crossings
- Special structures in the track (check rail, protective tracks)
- Structural adjustment at level crossings, bridges, cleaning and browsing pits, rail scales and rail brakes
- Continuous welded track - theoretical foundations, progressions the stresses, conditions for setting
- Diagnostics of railway superstructure (inspections, manual measurements, measuring vehicles, non-destructive testing)
- Construction of the railway superstructure of tramway and metro
- Construction of special tracks (funicular railways, crane ways, mining tracks,. ....)
- Principles of design and implementation of railway infrastructure development in conditions affected by mining activity and floodplains
- Solid figure of railway substructure - Construction of sleeper subsoil and railway substructure, protection of slopes, the transition the railway substructure on bridges
- Drainage of railway lines and stations, drainage structures and equipment (... culverts, inverted siphons, siphon tubes, overflows, chutes). Buildings of railway substructure. Protective equipment and buildings.

Exercise:
Calculations and assess the resistance of rails and languages, calculations of changes in temperature clamping curve, calculation of radial forces in the arch ..., transformation points, Suggestions track fork (parent college straight, arc ...), Rolling clutch two concentric arcs, arc design JKS,
own design expertise and elements (buildings) substructure - Design and Assessment resistance of multilayer systems sleeper beds, protection against natural plains effects of frost (proposals, judging ..), drainage, geosynthetics applications, geocomposite in structural layers of the body substructure.
Students make and present selected topics from the area of railway
upper and bottom ....

Literature

- ESVELD, C.: Modern Railway Track. Second Edition. MRT- Productions, Delft 2001
- Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA)
- TZANAKAKIS, K.: The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour (A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality), Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, Verlag, 2013.

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
EN ISO 3095:2013 - Railway applications – Acoustics – Measurement of noise emitted by railbound vehicles
EN 16272-3-2:2012 - Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 3-2: Normalized railway noise spectrum and single number ratings for direct field applications
EN 16272-6:2014 - Railway applications — Track — Noise barriers and related devices acting on airborne sound propagation — Test method for determining the acoustic performance — Part 6: Intrinsic characteristics — In situ values of airborne sound insulation under direct sound field conditions