Courses in English
Road Surfaces and Technology of Road Construction
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Bachelor in Civil Engineering degree
Semester: 4
Workload: 60h
Course topics:
- Introduction to basic terms and definitions, connected with the pavement structure and its co-work with a subgrade, road pavement as the engineering structure, technical- exploitation parameters of pavements, (bearing capacity, friction, evenness, rutting, instability, durability, light reflection, noise emission, impermeability of surface layers, requirements for road markings), ultimate limit states.
- Classification of pavements according to different criteria: level of the accommodation to fast traffic, traffic loads, deformability, applied materials, influence of the temperature on the pavement work, criteria of the pavement type selection
- Stone pavement materials: raw materials for stone elements and road aggregates production, their basic physical and mechanical properties, testing and evaluation methods, chosen examples of their application, among others also to stone pavements in historical areas
- Road artificial aggregates, reclaimed asphalt and fillers: types, properties and requirements
- Asphalt binders, paving grade bitumen, polymer modified bitumen, bitumen emulsions,. cut back bitumen, bitumen production, applications, properties and requirements
- Bituminous mixtures: types, applications, composition design, properties and requirements. Conventional mixtures and new generation mixtures
- Pavement structure design, soil subgrade classification, weak subgrades improving methods with using the geotextiles, the pavement structure work mechanism, execution requirements, the algorithm of pavement structure design for flexible and semirigid pavements
- Technology of the road works: assortments of road works, earth works with the use of the materials for embankments, subgrade strengthening methods, mineral unbound aggregate bases, aggregate bases bound with the hydraulic binders, pavement recycling technology, technology of surface asphalt layers, specifications for the execution and acceptance inspection of the road works
Road Design:
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Bachelor in Civil Engineering degree
Semester: 6, 7
Workload: 75h
Course topics:
- Conceptual design of road section in two variants with the choice of geometrical alignment and calculations necessary for their dimensioning. Selection of crosssection type. Detailed design solution for the selected element from the project - intersection, culvert, transition curve. Technical escription preparation including design determinants and justification of the solutions
- The classification of roads and streets with its formal and technical determinants, indicators describing the road network, basic road design parameters and their determination
- Designing determinants resulting from the mechanics of movement criteria, road safety, cost and environmental requirements
- Vertical and horizontal alignment roads - elements and the basic of design criteria. Detailed principles of design: straight, curves, transition curves, elements of vertical alignment, alignment coordination. Homogeneity assessment of geometric horizontal alignment
- Elements of cross-section roads and their imensioning, shaping the road ramps
- Earthworks operations, calculation of earth-moving asses and designing of earth movements
- Classification of road intersections, the basic design requirements, criteria for selecting intersection type, the elements of specific solutions for intersections channeled
- Elements of road drainage - the types and usage objectives. Characteristics of rainfall and etermination of calculated water runoff for imensioning drainage road facilities
- Dimensioning of open channels. Water discharge, taking into account environmental considerations
- Road culverts, designing and construction
- Subsoil drainage system, design solutions
- Parking and service roads to the buildings
