Course Details
Roads 1
Academic Year 2022/23
BM001 course is part of 4 study plans
B-P-C-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
B-K-C-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
B-P-C-MI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
B-P-E-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
Materials and technologies for the road construction. Getting knowledge about basic materials which are used in the road construction (soils, aggregates, bitumens, asphalts, concretes etc.), their properties and quality demands.
In connection with the material properties production and building-in technologies of particular construction layers of flexible and rigid pavements are going over, further also test systems for quality control.
Principles of the road construction design according to catalogue.
Road distresses and road material recycling technologies.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Complete highway route design, computation of highway geometry.
Highway history and development, Traffic flow and road capacity.
Physical conditions of vehicle motion, vehicle characteristics.
Economy, safety, external traffic impact.
Knowledge
Students are able to find routing of highway under uncomplicated conditions and draw and print a lay-out of plans. Students finalize basic project documentation according to czech standards. They are able to assess alternative solutions and find optimum.
Syllabus
1. Soils and rocks, earth works
2. Improvement of soils
3. Aggregate and unbound layers
4. Hydraulically bound layers
5. Bituminous binders
6. Asphalt mixtures - properties and design
7. Bituminous tack coats, surface dressings and slurry seals
8. Paved roads, concrete block pavements
9. Cement concrete roads
10. Design of rigid and flexible road constructions
11. Road diagnostics
12. Road maintenance and repair
13. Recycling of flexible and rigid pavements
Prerequisites
Basic general knowledge about construction materials and construction physics are required.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Soils and rocks, earth works
2. Improvement of soils
3. Aggregate and unbound layers
4. Hydraulically bound layers
5. Bituminous binders
6. Asphalt mixtures - properties and design
7. Bituminous tack coats, surface dressings and slurry seals
8. Paved roads, concrete block pavements
9. Cement concrete roads
10. Design of rigid and flexible road constructions
11. Road diagnostics
12. Road maintenance and repair
13. Recycling of flexible and rigid pavements
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. Example - soil classification
3. Demonstration - laboratory and field soil tests
4. Example - Proctor test and CBR test
5. Demonstration - aggregate tests
6. Demonstrace - bituminous binder tests
7. Example - design of asphalt mixture
8. Demonstration - production, compaction and testing of asphalt mixtures
9. Basic information on road construction design
10. Example - design of flexible pavements
11. Example - design of rigid pavements
12. Diagnostic survey
13. Credit