Course: Maintenance and repairs of railway vehicles

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Course title Maintenance and repairs of railway vehicles
Course code KDPD/PUKVK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Lata Michael, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Liberová Stanislava, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Cleaning the railway vehicles (RV) and their parts, vehicle weighing. Defektoscopy. Renovative methods at maintenance. Theory of surface and technology of surface edits. Maintenance of wheelset, maintenance of axle bearings. Maintenance of bogies, maintenance of body case and body case frame. Maintenance of electrical arrangements. Maintenance of combustion motor. Maintenance of select parts and auxiliary equipment of RV. Maintenance operation, orderong of maintenance halls, manipulation means, working environment, working and hygienic conditions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Demonstration, Projection
Learning outcomes
Students acquired the elementary knowledges about organization of servicing, maintenance and about technology of repairs of the single constructional parts of railway vehicles.
Student is able to working activity associated with technological pages of maintenance process.
Prerequisites
Encompassment of Operation of Railway Vehicles is supposed.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

The examination has the written part in test form and oral part.
Recommended literature
  • ROZSYPAL, K. a kol. Racionalizace oprav železničních vozidel. Praha: Nadas, 1983.
  • STUCHLÝ, V. a kol. Údržba a opravy II. Praha: Nadas, 1988.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Transport Engineering Study plan (Version): Transport Means: Environmental Protection in Transport (2013) Category: Transportation and communications 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Transport Engineering Study plan (Version): Transport Means: Environmental Protection in Transport (2014) Category: Transportation and communications 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer