Course Details
Mechanization and Realization of Railway Structures
Academic Year 2022/23
BN052 course is part of 3 study plans
B-P-C-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year
B-K-C-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year
B-P-E-SI (N) Summer Semester 1st year
Construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies. Construction demands and parameters of track machines. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening, for justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions.
Special vehicles for person transport and material transport. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway superstructure (ballast cleaners, tamping machines, machines for sleeper replacing, ballast regulators). Ballast bed compacting machines and dynamic track stabilizer.
Welding machines, rail grinding machines, rail reprofiling machines. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
Measuring and diagnostic systems. Complete technology for track maintenance and renewal. Organization of track maintenance and possesions.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.
Knowledge
A student acquires skills in construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems.
Syllabus
1. Construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies.
2. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening, justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
3. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions.
4. Special vehicles for person transport and material transport. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
5. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway superstructure, ballast cleaners.
6. Tamping machines, machines for sleeper replacing, ballast regulators.
7. Compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizer.
8. Welding machines, rail grinding machines, rail reprofiling machines.
9. Organization of track maintenance and possesions.
10. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
11. Measuring and diagnostic systems. Complete technology for track maintenance and renewal.
Prerequisites
Basic terms, division of railway structures, track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions – basic terms, railway track design, subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
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. Construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies.
2. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening, justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
3. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions.
4. Special vehicles for person transport and material transport. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
5. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway superstructure, ballast cleaners.
6. Tamping machines, machines for sleeper replacing, ballast regulators.
7. Compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizer.
8. Welding machines, rail grinding machines, rail reprofiling machines.
9. Organization of track maintenance and possesions.
10. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
11. Measuring and diagnostic systems. Complete technology for track maintenance and renewal.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies.
2. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening, justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
3. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions.
4. Special vehicles for person transport and material transport. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
5. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway superstructure, ballast cleaners.
6. Tamping machines, machines for sleeper replacing, ballast regulators.
7. Compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizer.
8. Welding machines, rail grinding machines, rail reprofiling machines.
9. Organization of track maintenance and possesions.
10. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
11. Measuring and diagnostic systems. Complete technology for track maintenance and renewal.