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Rail Vehicles 1

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0675/01
Abbreviation KV1
Course title Rail Vehicles 1
Credits 5
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jan Famfulík, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

- Legislative and other normative documents of the Czech Republic and the EU, TSI specifications
- Categorization of trailers and traction rail vehicles
- Basic elements of the construction of the mechanical part of railway cars - running gear, frame and superstructure
- Basic elements of the construction of the mechanical part of traction vehicles - travel, main frame and superstructure
- Design of rail vehicle suspension - transverse and vertical suspension
- Construction of railway wheelsets, axle bearings
- Guide of wheelsets of freight and passenger railway wagons with two axles
- Guidance of wheelsets of freight and passenger railway bogies
- Driving wheelsets for traction vehicles
- Chassis of railway wagons and tendencies of their development
- Chassis of traction vehicles and tendencies of their development
- Layout of passenger cars
- Layout solutions for trucks
- Layout solutions for special vehicles

Povinná literatura

Spiryagin, M., Cole, C., Sun, Y., McClanachan, M., McSweeney, T., Design and Simulation of Rail Vehicles, CRC Prress, 1st Edition, 2013, ISBN 978-1466575660 

Doporučená literatura

Janicki, J., Schienenfahrzeugtechnik, Bahn FachverlagGmbH Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943214-07-9 
Janicki, J., Systemwissen Eisenbahn, Bahn FachverlagGmbH Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-943214-15-4 
Baur, K., G., Drehgestelle - Bogies, EK-Verlag GmbH Freiburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-147-1 
SKF - Kure, G. and team, Railway technical handbook, 2010, ISBN 978-91-978966-1-0 
SKF - Kure, G. and team, Railway technical handbook Vol. 2, 2012, ISBN 978-91-978966-6-5 
Iwnicki, S., Handbook of railway vehicle dynamics, CRC Press Boca Raton, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8493-3321-7 
Spiryagin, M., Cole, C., Sun, Y., McClanachan, M., McSweeney, T., Design and Simulation of Rail Vehicles, CRC Prress, 1st Edition, 2013,
ISBN 978-1466575660 ,