Course Details

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Academic Year 2024/25

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.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Road Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Knowledge of road design and construction, technologies of road onstruction

Aims

Type testing of asphalt mixtures, new technologies for road construction and maintenance, requierements for road building, environmental aspects of transportation.
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.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281820

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.