Course detail

Special Railway Constructions

FAST-0N5Acad. year: 2022/2023

Computation models for railway superstructures. Loading diagram for computation of bearing capacity according UIC standards. Improving of railway substructure bearing capacity. Railway superstructure on bridges.
Rail defects. Switches, operation and locking system. Common crossings.
Slab track, slab sleepers and sleeper slabs, concrete slabs. Concrete sleepers, design and estimation. Concrete elements in railway substructure. Level crossings.
Signalling system.
Cable railway, funiculars. Crane tracks.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, railway track design.
Railway substructure, subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers, construction and shape of earth formation
Railway superstructure and modern railway structure design

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Switches and crossing, types, turnout parts.
2. Geometry of set of switches and common crossings. Manufactured types and notation.
3. The single turnout, stock rail, switch rail (blade), common and crossings, sleepers, fastenings systems.
4. Operating and locking systems. Crossings and slip points.
5. Turnout collections. Cross overs, junctions.
6. Sets of turnouts. Turnouts in curves. High speed turnouts, development of new turnouts structures.
7. Track loads, vertical, lateral and longitudinal forces, influence of higher operation speed
8. Static track design, rail stresses, sleeper stresses, vertical stresses on ballast bed and formation, computer models
9. Dynamic analysis of railway structures.
10. Rail failures, rail grinding.
11. Slab track, slab sleepers and sleeper slabs, concrete slabs.
12. Concrete sleepers, design and estimation. Concrete elements in railway substructure.
13. Cable railway, funiculars. Crane tracks.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of switches and crossings, turnouts, static and dynamic design of railway track and its structure elements and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Esveld, C.: Modern Railway Track. MRT-Productions, Delft 2001
Klimeš, F.: Železniční stavitelství II. SNTL Praha 1981
Plášek, Zvěřina, Svoboda, Mockovčiak: Železniční stavby. Železniční svršek a spodek. CERM 2004

Recommended reading

Heinisch, Lehmann, Kracke, Rahn, Stuchly: Feste Fahrbahn. Eurailpress, Hamburg 2000

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.