Course Details

Railway Structures 1

Academic Year 2024/25

BNA002 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Basic Literature

PLÁŠEK, Otto, Pavel ZVĚŘINA, Richard SVOBODA a Milan MOCKOVČIAK. Železniční stavby: Železniční spodek a svršek. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2621-7. (cs)
IŽVOLT, Libor a Stanislav HODÁS. Projektovanie, stavba, rekonštrukcia a modernizácia železničných tratí a staníc. Žilina: EDIS, 2020. ISBN 978-80-554-1703-5. (sk)
IŽVOLT, Libor, Stanislav HODAS a Janka ŠESTÁKOVÁ. Železničné staviteľstvo 1: Projektovanie, stavby a konštrukcie železničných tratí a staníc. 1. Žilina: EDIS, 2015. ISBN 978-80-554-1122-4. (sk)
ČSN 73 6360-1. Konstrukční a geometrické uspořádání koleje železničních drah a její prostorová poloha - Část 1: Projektování. 12.2020. Praha: ÚNMZ, 2020. (cs)
ČSN 73 6360-2. Konstrukční a geometrické uspořádání koleje železničních drah a její prostorová poloha - Část 2: Stavba a přejímka, provoz a údržba. 10.2009. Praha: ÚNMZ, 2009. (cs)

Recommended Reading

BONNETT, Clifford F. Practical railway engineering. 2nd ed. London: Imperial College Press, c2005. ISBN 1-86094-515-5. (en)
HANSMANN, Fabian, Wolfgang NEMETZ a Richard SPOORS. Keeping Track of Track Geometry: Basic- Error Detection- Correction - Quality. Leverkusen: PMC Media House, 2021. ISBN 978-3-96245-225-4. (en)

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281460

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Railway track geometry components and track alignment design parameters within operation speed 160 km/h. Rail track gauge and gauge widening.
  • 2. Cant, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency.
  • 3. Horizontal track alignment. Transition curves.
  • 4. Nonlinear transition curves.
  • 5. Compound curves. Transition curves connecting two circular curves. Reverse curves.
  • 6. Vertical track alignment, gradients, vertical curves.
  • 7. Track alignment design parameters for operation of tilting body trains.
  • 8. Routing of railway lines, railway track design.
  • 9. Geodetic surveying of track layout, track layout optimization problems.
  • 10. Geodetic layouts and fixing of rail track alignment.
  • 11. Clearances. The centre line distances in open track and in railway stations.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Rail track gauge and gauge widening
  • 2. Cant, specifying of design of a section double track line.
  • 3. Circle curve, distance-related cant gradient, time-related cant gradient, cant deficiency.
  • 4. Transition curves, clothoid, cubic parabola. Calculations of track layout of a circle curve with transition curves.
  • 5. Compound curves. Transition curves connecting two circular curves. Reverse curves.
  • 6. Design of parallel tracks. Change of track axis distance.
  • 7. Design parameters regarding the tilting trains.
  • 8. Vertical track alignment
  • 9. Drawings elaboration
  • 10. Consultations
  • 11. Submitting of the study of a section of railway line, credit.