Course Details

Specialized Project (K-ZEL)

Academic Year 2024/25

BNB006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year

Railway level crossings, sight layout, road pavement structures on level crossings, traffic signs and safety.
Basics of track assessment and inspection procedures, technical state evaluation of railway infrastructure, maintenance management.
Methods and measuring devices on the inspection of the quality of track geometry parameters, measuring draisines and track recording cars.
Introduction to railway control, command and information systems, devices in tracks.
Introduction to energy systems – track overhead catenary systems.
Application of rules for persons of reduced mobility for railway infrastructure design, especially at railway stations.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Construction of transport structures – railway superstructure and substructure, track geometry design parameters, basics of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems of structure gauges.

Aims

The objective of the subject is preliminary work on bachelor’s project.
A student acquires a preliminary thesis on bachelor’s project.

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, Janka ŠESTÁKOVÁ a Michal ŠMALO. Železničné staviteľstvo 2: Diagnostika, mechanizácia prác a technologické postupy údržby železničnej jazdnej dráhy. Žilina: EDIS, 2015. ISBN 978-80-554-1169-9. (sk)
IŽVOLT, Libor. Železničný spodok: namáhanie, diagnostika, navrhovanie a realizácia konštrukčných vrstiev telesa železničného spodku. V Žiline: Žilinská univerzita, 2008. ISBN 978-808-0708-023. (sk)

Recommended Reading

BONNETT, Clifford F. Practical railway engineering. 2nd ed. London: Imperial College Press, c2005. ISBN 1-86094-515-5. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Project

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Railway level crossings, sight layout.
  • 2. Road pavement structures on level crossings, traffic signs and safety.
  • 3. Basics of track assessment and inspection procedures, technical state evaluation of railway infrastructure,
  • 4. Management of railway infrastructure maintenance.
  • 5. Methods and measuring devices on the inspection of the quality of track geometry parameters.
  • 6. Measuring draisines and track recording cars.
  • 7. Introduction to railway control, command and information systems, devices in tracks.
  • 8. Control command and signalling – devices in track.
  • 9. Introduction to energy systems – track overhead catenary systems.
  • 10. Application of rules for persons of reduced mobility for railway infrastructure design.
  • 11. Structures used by passengers in railway stations and stops.