26 hod., optionally

1. Measuring technique and modelling. Introduction into transportation structures problems, hygiene standards and regulations. Aims and physical principles of measurements and devices. 2. Types of measuring sensors, principles of electronic measurements of physical quantities. 3. Multi-channel measurements, measuring software, principles of data recorded elaboration and proportional dependencies on various quantities. 4. Measurements of mechanical and fatigue material properties within transportation structures. 5. Measurements, analyses and modelling of mechanical exertion, static and dynamic phenomena. Measuring, modelling and analysis of temperature and thermal fields. 6. Measurements and analyses of noise and trembling. Comparison of measuring and modelling techniques. Prediction of noise levels from a road, rail transport and air transport. 7. Modal analyses, comparison of measuring and modelling techniques. Analyses of measurements. 8. Design and analyses of anti-noise and anti-vibration measurements. Dynamical analysis of rail track constructions. 9. Dynamical models of rail track, critical train speed. Dynamical response on a vehicle, the dynamical response on moving wheelset, vibration transmission between vehicle and rail track. 10. Application of advanced models by the method of final elements. Stability of rail grid and alongside strength, diagonal and alongside resistance, modelling by the method of final elements.