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Railway Structures

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 227-0408/01
Abbreviation ŽS
Course title Railway Structures
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Transport Constructions
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladislav Křivda, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

- Introduction to railway construction - technicla specifications for interoperability of subsystem \"Infrastructure\" of tranevropean high speed railway system according to art. 6 par. 1 od directive 96/48/ES, 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, track assembly
- Switches and crossings (basic concepts, points for VRT, rail intersection)
- Substructure (roadbed construction, design principles, building substructure, drainage)
- 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), technology, repairs of the railway superstructure and substructure, equipment
- Railway-building in special conditions (area affected by mining activities construction in flood plains), reconstructions
- Costructions of railway lines for high speed, modernization of railway net of the Czech Republic, aplication of technical specification for interoperability in modernization of railway net of the Czech Republic

E-learning

LMS Moodle (VŠB-TUO): 2270408 Railway Structures

Povinná literatura

- ESVELD, Coenraad. Modern railway track. 2nd ed. Zaltbommel: MRT Productions, c2001. ISBN 90-800324-3-3.
- TZANAKAKIS, Konstantinos. The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality. Berlin: Springer, c2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36050-3.
- Practical Guide To Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), 2003.

Doporučená literatura

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