Course Details
Special Topics of Highways
Academic Year 2023/24
NMB016 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year
The subject covers problem solving, which are met in the practice.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Type testing of asphalt mixtures, new technologies for road construction and maintenance, requierements for road building, environmental aspects of transportation.
Knowledge
Students get practical knowledge of asphalt mixture tests and examinations, asphalt mixture production. They learn about quality management standards in road building, about environmental and health riscs effected by traffic and by road building.
Syllabus
1. Traffic in the world.
2. Functional tests of bitumens.
3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
4. Asphalt mixtures production.
5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
6. Functional tests of soils.
7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.
2. Functional tests of bitumens.
3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
4. Asphalt mixtures production.
5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
6. Functional tests of soils.
7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of road design and construction, technologies of road onstruction
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Traffic in the world.
2. Functional tests of bitumens.
3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
4. Asphalt mixtures production.
5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
6. Functional tests of soils.
7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Traffic in the world.
2. Functional tests of bitumens.
3. Functional tests of asphalt mixtures.
4. Asphalt mixtures production.
5. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders, and asphalt mixtures.
6. Functional tests of soils.
7.–8. The use of waste materials in road constructions.
9.–10. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA, conclusions, credit.