Course Details

Roads 1

Academic Year 2023/24

BMA001 course is part of 2 study plans

BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 3rd year

BPC-MI Winter Semester 3rd 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

Credits

4 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

Not to offer

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.