Course detail

Field Training (K)

FAST-BN003Acad. year: 2024/2025

Optimization project of section of railway line. Geodetic surveying of track alignment, earth formation and engineering structures, evaluation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Design of new geometry components, laying out of new track alignment, laying out respective of fixed points. Practical application of diagnostic methods, static and dynamic loading test. Characteristic cross sections, design and estimation of substructure layers. Railway superstructure diagram. Geometry layout of standard turnout, precise levelling of vertical alignment. Geodetic surveying of section of railway station. GPS surveying principles and methods. GPS practice with different apparatus sets. Calculation of bearing capacity of bridge structure. Working out of technical drawings.
Terrain mapping with GPS methods. Levelling of road route with standard optical automatic level instrument. Design of the road reconstruction. 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. Practical geodetic layout of the designed road project, GPS methods usage for road route layout. Practical application of diagnostic methods e.g. static loading plate, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 - Catalog of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with 4 meter beam, roughness of road surface - evaluating of macrotexture with sand grain.
Field presentation of basic methods of geotechnical survey, bore log documentation, exploratory set G10, light dynamic penetration, interpretation of engineering geological survey.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

Entry knowledge

Geodesy in Civil Engineering, coordinate systems, geodetic computations, measurement of directions and angles, distance measurements, height systems, height measurements, setting out of buildings, roads and railways, maps
Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions, railway track design, subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers.
Complete highway route design, computation of highway geometry.
Soil mechanics, classification of soils for engineering purposes.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

The objective of the subject is to practise acquires knowledge and skills in railway structures, road structures and soil mechanics in practical lessons during field training.
A student improves acquires knowledge and skills in railway structures, road structures and soil mechanics in practical lessons during field training.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

IŽVOLT, Libor a Stanislav HODÁS. Projektovanie, stavba, rekonštrukcia a modernizácia železničných tratí a staníc. Žilina: EDIS, 2020. ISBN 978-80-554-1703-5. (SK)
IŽVOLT, Libor. Železničný spodok: namáhanie, diagnostika, navrhovanie a realizácia konštrukčných vrstiev telesa železničného spodku. V Žiline: Žilinská univerzita, 2008. ISBN 978-808-0708-023. (SK)
PLÁŠEK, Otto, Pavel ZVĚŘINA, Richard SVOBODA a Milan MOCKOVČIAK. Železniční stavby: Železniční spodek a svršek. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2621-7. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Field training

240 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

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 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. Practical application of diagnostic methods e.g. static loading plate, drill core, visual inspection and classification according to TP82 - Catalogue of flexible pavement malfunctions, unevenness measuring with 4-meter beam, 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 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 Practical geodetic layout of the designed road project.