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Rail Vehicles 2

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0680/01
Abbreviation KV2
Course title Rail Vehicles 2
Credits 5
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jan Famfulík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Energy sources of traction vehicles - traction circuits and their control
- Energy sources of traction vehicles - internal combustion engines for rail vehicles
- Power transmissions of independent vehicle rail vehicles - purpose, nature, types and arrangement of power transmission equipment
- Mechanical power transmission - friction clutch, mechanical gearboxes, reversing and reduction gearboxes, gearboxes
- Hydraulic power transmission - hydrostatic power transmission, method of regulation
- Hydraulic power transmission - hydrodynamic power transmission, converter, clutch
- Hydraulic power transmission - hydrodynamic power transmission, gearboxes, method of regulation
- Electrical power transmission - basic concepts of arrangement, cooperation of SM and generator, traction motors
- Electrical power transmission - type AC / DC, driver, generator, rectifier, shunt
- Electrical power transmission - type AC / AC, static driver, DC intermediate circuit, traction converters, asynchronous traction motors
- Rail vehicle brakes - basic arrangement, transmission and translation brakes
- Brakes of rail vehicles - pneumatic systems, brake, distributor, compressor, compressed air treatment
- Brakes of rail vehicles - mechanical part, leveling mechanism, discs, friction lining
- Auxiliary drives for traction vehicles, cooling TM, SM, accessories
- KV homologation procedures

Literature

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

Advised literature

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