Course detail

Construction and Transport Facilities

FAST-M18Acad. year: 2019/2020

This subject gives the basic information about road planning and road construction. Students get ackquainted with the basic principles of the road planning and road planning aesthetics. The following lectures are focused on the road construction, construction materials, laboratory tests and technologies used for the construction of particular layers. Also the road maintenance and recycling technologies are going over.
Practical courses are dedicated to basic individual examples from road planning, calculations and drawings of particular parts of horizontal and vertical alignment in the frame of a road project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Guarantor

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Department

Institute of Road Structures (PKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Basic general knowledge about construction materials is required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Historical development of road constructions. Terminology.
2 . Road design - horizontal alignment - basic elements - straight, circle, clothoid.
3. Horizontal alignment - combinations of the basic design elements, superelevation
4. Widening of roads, vertical alignment.
5. Vertical alignment, aesthetics in road design, typical cross section
6. Drainage
7. Pavement technology - construction, pavement courses, subgrade
8. Compaction control, road construction machinery
9. Aggregate, unbound and bound base courses
10. Bitumen, properties
11. Asphalt mixtures
12. Asphalt layers, types, tests, requirements
13. Cement concrete roads, pavings

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective is to gain the basic information and principles concerning the road design and road construction.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Krajčovič, M.: Dopravní stavby I.
Varaus, M.: Písemné podklady k přednáškám.

Recommended reading

Kaun, M., Luxemburk, F.: Pozemní komunikace 30.
Shell Bitumen U.K. Ltd.: The Shell Bitumen Handbook.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus