Course: Railway Track Machines and Mechanization

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Course title Railway Track Machines and Mechanization
Course code KDPD/PTSMP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
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.
Course content
Introduction. View of special vehicles (SV), makers of TS, demand on TS. Railway's top, view of railway works technology problems. Power transmissions at special vehicles, regulation - divergences from classical railway vehicles. Mechanical power transmission, hydrostatic and hydrodynamics power transmission, electrical power transmission. Aplication to real vehicles. Cleaning of ballast ? material sorting, mining, ballast cleaners. Carrying-capacity escalation of sleepers foot-wall. Principles of tampers. Vertical and horisontal track set-up methods. Construction of tamping machines. Switch tamping machines. Machines and equipments for exchange the track sections, equipments for transport and manipulation of the track parts. Track machines for exchange of switches. Machines for the set-up the gravelly bed ? railway ploughes, vacuum exhausters. Track machines for removing of snow and ice ? plughes, snow cutters, snow transport sets. Track machines for working at railway substructure. The machines for for edits the track surroundings. Track machines for rails welding. The compacters and dynamic stabilizators. Rails grinding. Special machines for rails grindind. Trolley vehicles and theirs modifications. Track machines for the inspection and repairs of trolley circuits. Two-way track machines. Track machines for the diagnostic of railway's top and substructure. Equipments for measuring of the geometric parameters of track. Time allowance, summary of subject matters.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Projection
Learning outcomes
Enlargement the knowledge of students about problems of special vehicles and machine for railway's track buildings and maintenance and with problems of manipulation means. Introduce the students with work principles, construction of particular parts these machine and supplement the subject matter with piece of knowledge about latest types and development trends.
Student is understanding the fundamental constructional make-up of special railway vehicle, understand the function its particular parts and it conformable with building technology, which this machines exercises on track.
Prerequisites
The student has the elementary knowledges of mathematic, physic and mechanics and machine parts.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Creative work analysis

The obtain of inclusion is conditioned by participation at practice lessons with one enabled absence per semester and successful pass the inclusion test. The examination has the written part in test form and oral part.
Recommended literature
  • Adámek, Walter . Speciální vozidla a stroje pro práci na železničních tratích. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 1998. ISBN 80-7194-126-3.


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: Rail Vehicles (2014) Category: Transportation and communications 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Transport Engineering Study plan (Version): Transport Means: Rail Vehicles (2013) Category: Transportation and communications 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter