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Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

A student acquires skills in interaction between railway vehicle and track, static track design, switches, crossings and turnouts.

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

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

1. Wheel – rail interface, wheelset and track dimensions, equivalent conicity, lateral movement of wheelset on straight track
2. Wheel – rail contact stresses, Hertz theory, adhesion and adhesion force, train resistances
3. Vehicle in curve, Vogel theory, Heumann theory, forces on wheelset, derailment condition.
4. Track loads, vertical, lateral and longitudinal forces, influence of higher operation speed
5. Static track design, rail stresses, sleeper stresses, vertical stresses on ballast bed and formation, computer models
6. The rail, manufacturing, welding, testing and acceptance.
7. Rail failures, rail grinding.
8. Switches and crossing, types, turnout parts.
9. Geometry of set of switches and common crossings. Manufactured types and notation.
10. The single turnout, stock rail, switch rail (blade), common and crossings, sleepers, fastenings systems.
11. Operating and locking systems. Crossings and slip points.
12. Turnout collections. Cross overs, junctions.
13. Sets of turnouts. Turnouts in curves. High speed turnouts, development of new turnouts structures.

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The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of interaction between railway vehicle and track, static track design, switches, crossings and turnouts 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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Esveld, C.: Modern Railway Track. MRT-Productions, Delft, 2001. (EN)
Klimeš, F.: Železniční stavitelství II. SNTL Praha, 1981. (CS)
Lichtberger, B.: Handbuch Gleis. Unterbau, Oberbau, Instandhaltung, Wirtschaftlichkeit.. Tetzlaff Verlag Hamburg, 2003. (DE)
Tyc, Kubát, Dostál, Havíř: Železniční stavby. Dh Press, Bratislava, 1993. (CS)

kol.: Wheel/Rail Safety. Blackwell Publishing, 2003. (EN)
Markku Nummelin: Railway Turnouts. Finnish Rail Administration, 2003. (EN)