Railway and Port Infrastructures
Code
10457
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Civil
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
Simona Fontul
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The students will acquire knowledge regarding the design, construction and maintenance of railways and ports infrastructures
Subject matter
A. Port Infrastructures
Ports and ports infrastructures
- Maritime traffic and attractiveness of load transport
- Natural conditions, construction and terminal protection
- Types of vessels, cargo load and unloaded requirements and operation
Maritime structures
- Hydrodynamic and other actions
- Design of rubble mound breakwaters
Navigation channels and dredging
Port policies and hinterland development
B. Railway infrastructures
Basic principles of railway transport: passengers and freight
- Introduction
- Particularities of railway transport
Track structure and materials
- Earthworks
- Transition zones
- Platform, capping and sub-ballast
- Ballast and slab
Track layout
- General considerations
- Horizontal curves. Superelevation
- Transition curves
- Gradients and vertical curves
- Railway bridges
- Railway stations
Track loads
- Static and dynamic loads
- Wheel-rail interface.
- Track stability
- Wave propagation. Vibration reduction
Track monitoring
- Pathologies
- Track Inspection. Equipments.
Construction and maintenance technologies
High speed lines: specific issues.
C. Intermodal transportation – interfaces efficiency. Maritime, railway and road networks’ integration
Bibliography
Main bibliography consists on class documentation and slides. Other bibliography:
- Coastal Engineering Manual. Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/CHL.aspx?p=s&a=PUBLICATIONS;8), manual, de distribuição gratuita através da Internet, que contém a base da disciplina.
- ESVELT, C. (2001) – “Modern Railway Track” MRT-Productions, Netherlands. (http://www.esveld.com/MRT_Selection.pdf)
- 2008/217/CE - DECISÃO DA COMISSÃO de 20 de Dezembro de 2007 relativa à especificação técnica de interoperabilidade para o subsistema «infra-estrutura» do sistema ferroviário transeuropeu de alta velocidade.(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:077:0001:0105:PT:PDF)
Teaching method
The course consists of a set of theoretical-practical classes, in which the students are familiarized with the basic principles of railways and ports infrastructures, from aspects related to management concepts, to principles of design, construction, monitoring and maintenance of structures.