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Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

A student acquires skills in construction and shape of earth formation, railway superstructure and subdivision and modern railway structure design.

Soil mechanics, stability analysis of slope, earth pressures, soil compaction, improvement of soil properties, stabilization.
Strength and elasticity of materials, basic principles of structural mechanics.
Railway track design and subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1. Construction and shape of earth formation, embankments.
2. Cuttings and combinations.
3. Earth formation slope and its protection.
4. Earth formation drainage.
5. Diagnostic methods and assessment, failures and repair works. Geological and geophysical prospecting, repairing works.
6. Diagnostic methods, improving of bearing capacity and stability of railway earth formation
7. Railway superstructure, structure development.
8. Rails, rail joints.
9. Sleepers, ballast bed.
10. Rail fastening systems.
11. Static track design – track loads and track analysis.
12. Theory of continuous welded rail, rail welding methods, long unwelded rails. Continuous welded rail maintenance, failures.
13. Modern railway structure design.

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The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of Construction and shape of earth formation, railway superstructure and subdivision and modern railway structure design and to practise acquires knowledge and skills.

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

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Coenraad Esveld: Modern Railway Track. MRT- Productions, 2001. (EN)
Klimeš, F.: Železniční stavitelství I. SNTL Praha, 1978. (CS)
kol.: British Railway Track. The Permanent Way Institution, 1993. (EN)
Plášek, O.: Železniční stavby. Návody do cvičení. CERM, 2002. (CS)
Plášek, Zvěřina, Svoboda, Mockovčiak: Železniční stavby. Železniční spodek a svršek. CERM, 2007. (CS)
Plášek, Zvěřina, Svoboda, Mockovčiak: Železniční stavby. Železniční svršek a spodek. CERM, 2004. (CS)

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