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Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

A student acquires skills in construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems.

Basic terms, division of railway structures. Track alignment design parameters and its spatial positions – basic terms.
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 of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies.
2. Construction demands and parameters of track machines.
3. Hand-held equipment for maintenance of rails, sleepers, rail fastening.
4. Hand-held equipment for for justification geometry components and track alignment, other hand-held equipment.
5. Geometry deterioration, reasons and remedial actions.
6. Special vehicles for person transport and material transport.
7. Machines for removing of snow and vegetation.
8. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway superstructure, ballast cleaners.
9. Tamping machines, machines for sleeper replacing, ballast regulators.
10. Compacting machines for ballast bed and dynamic track stabilizer.
11. Welding machines, rail grinding machines, rail reprofiling machines.
12. Machines for maintenance and renewal of railway substructure.
13. Measuring and diagnostic systems. Complete technology for track maintenance and renewal.

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The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems 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)
kol.:: British Railway Track. The Permanent Way Institution, 1993. (EN)
Kolektiv: Mechanizace prací v traťovém hospodářství. Plzeň, 1972. (CS)
Škach, A.: Stroje pro traťové hospodářství. Praha, 1993. (CS)
Vysloužil, J.: Cyklické opravy železničního svršku. Praha, 1980. (CS)

Bernhard Lichtberger: Handbuch Gleis. Unterbau, Oberbau, Instandhaltung, Wirtschaftlichkeit. Tetzlaff Verlag, 2003. (DE)