Course Details

Field Training (K)

Academic Year 2024/25

BNA001 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Field training

1 week, 80 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Day 1–3 – Geodetic surveying of track alignment, earth formation and engineering structures, evaluation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Design of new geometry components. Geometry layout of standard turnout, precise levelling of vertical alignment. Geodetic surveying of section of a railway station. Day 4–7 – Terrain and present situation surveying. Reconstruction plan – horizontal and vertical alignment, width disposition and cross-sections. Design of a crossroad and a parking lot on concrete local conditions. The practical application of the diagnostic methods e.g. bulk density test, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 – Catalogue of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with the 4-meter beam, the roughness of road surface – evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain. Day 8 – Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey. Calculation of bearing capacity of a bridge structure. Day 9 – Laying out of new track alignment, laying out respective of fixed points. Practical application of diagnostic methods, static and dynamic loading test. Day 10 – The practical geodetic layout of the designed road project.