Course Details

Permanent Way Theory

Academic Year 2024/25

DNB018 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-K Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-K Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-K Summer Semester 1st year

Students are introduced in details to the track-vehicle interaction, the wheel-rail interaction, the theory of static and dynamic design and estimation of railway superstructure, switches and crossings in introductory lectures and seminars. Themes are focused on track upgrading with respect to speed and axle load increasing.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Structural mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, dynamics of civil structures, numerical mathematics, physics.
Railway structures, switches, railway track geometry components and alignment, the design of railway tracks and stations, switches and crossings.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to deepen knowledge in permanent way theory with respect to theme of PhD thesis.

Basic Literature

ESVELD, Coenraad. Modern railway track. 2nd ed. Zaltbommel: MRT-Productions, c2001. ISBN 90-800-3243-3. (en)
LICHTBERGER, Bernhard. Track compendium: track system, substructure, maintenance, economics. 2. Hamburg: DVV Media Group, 2011. ISBN 978-3-7771-0421-8. (en)
Vertical Elasticity of Ballasteless Track. Paris: UIC, 2008. ISBN 2-7461-1396-1. (en)
DARR, Edgar. Feste Fahrbahn: Konstruktion, Bauarten, Systemvergleich feste Fahrbahn - Schotteroberbau. Hamburg: Tetzlaff Verlag, 1999. ISBN 38-781-4700-7. (de)

Recommended Reading

AL]., edited by Felix Schmid ... [et]. Best practice in wheel-rail interface management for mixed-traffic railways. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2010. ISBN 978-095-2999-737. (en)
FRÝBA, Ladislav. Dynamika železničních mostů. Praha: Academia, 1992, 326 s. ISBN 80-200-0262-6. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction and preparation of study literature.
  • 2.-6. Introductory lectures.
  • 7.–10. Seminars for an appointed theme.
  • 11.–13. Completion seminar thesis with the appointed theme.