Course detail

Special topics of highways

FAST-CM54Acad. year: 2024/2025

The subject covers problem solving, which are met with in practice.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Road Structures (PKO)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of road design and construction, technologies of road onstruction

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Type testing of asphalt mixtures, new technologies for road construction and maintenance, requierements for road building, environmental aspects of transportation.
Students get practical knowledge of asphalt mixture tests and examinations, asphalt mixture production. They learn about quality management standards in road building, about environmental and health riscs effected by traffic and by road building.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČSN EN 13 108, Asfaltový beton. 0. (CS)
ČSN EN 12697. 0. (CS)

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Asphalt mixture testing, ITT tests 2. Asphalt mixtures production 3. Cold recyclation 4. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders 5. Winter maintenance and its organization 6. The use of waste materials in road constructions 7. Functional tests of soils 8. Claims on construction layers of pavements 9. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA 10.Conclusions, credit

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Hýzl, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Asphalt mixture testing, ITT tests 2. Asphalt mixtures production 3. Cold recyclation 4. Practical problems of road construction management, tenders 5. Winter maintenance and its organization 6. The use of waste materials in road constructions 7. Functional tests of soils 8. Claims on construction layers of pavements 9. Traffic and environment EIA, SEIA 10.Conclusions, credit