Course Details
Field Training (K)
Academic Year 2023/24
BNA001 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 3rd year
Optimization project of a section of railway line. Geodetic surveying of track alignment, earth formation and engineering structures, evaluation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Design of new geometry components, laying out of new track alignment, laying out respective of fixed points. Practical application of diagnostic methods, static and dynamic plate loading test. Geometry layout of standard turnout, precise levelling of vertical alignment. Geodetic surveying of section of a railway station. GPS surveying principles and methods. GPS practice with different apparatus sets. Calculation of bearing capacity of a bridge structure. Working out of technical drawings.
Terrain mapping with GPS methods. Levelling of road route with the standard optical automatic level instrument. Design of the road reconstruction. Terrain and present situation surveying. Reconstruction plan - horizontal and vertical alignment, width disposition and cross-sections. Design of a crossroad and a parking lot on concrete local conditions. The practical geodetic layout of the designed road project, GPS methods usage for road route layout. Practical application of the diagnostic methods e.g. bulk density test, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 - Catalog of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with the 4-meter beam, the roughness of road surface - evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain.
Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey.
Terrain mapping with GPS methods. Levelling of road route with the standard optical automatic level instrument. Design of the road reconstruction. Terrain and present situation surveying. Reconstruction plan - horizontal and vertical alignment, width disposition and cross-sections. Design of a crossroad and a parking lot on concrete local conditions. The practical geodetic layout of the designed road project, GPS methods usage for road route layout. Practical application of the diagnostic methods e.g. bulk density test, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 - Catalog of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with the 4-meter beam, the roughness of road surface - evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain.
Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
The objective of the subject is to practise acquires knowledge and skills in railway structures, road structures and soil mechanics in practical lessons during field training.
Knowledge
A student improves acquires knowledge and skills in railway structures, road structures and soil mechanics in practical lessons during field training.
Prerequisites
Geodesy in Civil Engineering, coordinate systems, geodetic computations, measurement of directions and angles, distance measurements, height systems, height measurements, setting out of buildings, roads and railways, maps
Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, railway track design, subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers.
Complete highway route design, computation of highway geometry.
Soil mechanics, classification of soils for engineering purposes.
Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, railway track design, subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers.
Complete highway route design, computation of highway geometry.
Soil mechanics, classification of soils for engineering purposes.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
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
Field training
1 week, 80 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Day 1–3 – Geodetic surveying of track alignment, earth formation and engineering structures, evaluation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Design of new geometry components. Geometry layout of standard turnout, precise levelling of vertical alignment. Geodetic surveying of section of a railway station.
Day 4–7 – Terrain and present situation surveying. Reconstruction plan – horizontal and vertical alignment, width disposition and cross-sections. Design of a crossroad and a parking lot on concrete local conditions. The practical application of the diagnostic methods e.g. bulk density test, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 – Catalogue of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with the 4-meter beam, the roughness of road surface – evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain.
Day 8 – Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey. Calculation of bearing capacity of a bridge structure.
Day 9 – Laying out of new track alignment, laying out respective of fixed points. Practical application of diagnostic methods, static and dynamic loading test.
Day 10 – The practical geodetic layout of the designed road project.