Railway Engineering

Code:

PRODEC073

Acronym:

EF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Civil Eng. - Transport Infrastructures

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Transport Infrastructures Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PRODEC	0	Syllabus since 2007/08	1	-	5	45	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The study of railways as a mean of transportation; main characteristics of railways infrastructures and materials

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester, students should: be capable of understanding and developing application; be capable of applying their knowledge to solve problems and new situations in various contexts;  be capable of incorporating knowledge, dealing with complex situations with lack of information. They should also take into account their ethic and social responsibilities;  a long-life learning in a self-oriented and autonomous way.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Evolution of railways.
Static and dynamic analysis of railway tracks.
Construction and route of a railway track.
Stress of materials on a track; hunting movement; guiding strength.  Analysis of mechanical behaviour of the elements that compose the infrastructure. Railway track capacity.
High-speed and tilting train technology.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE SYLLABUS COHERENCE WITH THE CURRICULAR UNIT'S OBJECTIVES:

Being the railway energetically more efficient and less polluting than road transportation, the demand has increasing in recent decades and has justified the significant increase of investment in modernization and consequent technological development, revealing essentially the bet on high-speed (TGV) or the technology of magnetic levitation (Maglev). Thus, it is understood that the Railways should be considered in its essence as a nuclear and transversal curricular unit in the education of a Civil Engineer with specialization in Roads. For this reason the syllabus is comprehensive, focusing on general education type with a wide range of intervention. Therefore it allows the training of technicians able to develop and to coordinate a railway project.

Mandatory literature

Profillidis, V.A.; Railway engineering. ISBN: 0-291-39828-6
Esveld, Coenraad; Modern railway track. ISBN: 90-800324-1-7
European Committee for Standardization; Railway applications/Track track geometry quality Part 1 Characterisation of track geometry EN 13848-1:2003 Applications ferroviaires
Oliveros Rives, Fernando; Tratado de ferrocarriles. ISBN: 84-7207-015-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching involves sessions with theoretical presentations and discussions. The student grading will be based on a report assignment and a written exam if necessary.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE COHERENCE BETWEEN THE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND THE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

The report assignment and the discussion of the UC contents allows for an efficient learning experience at this education level.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	0,00
Total:	0,00

Calculation formula of final grade

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