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Course Catalog 2010-2011
MPR-5236 Design of Road, Street and Railway Structures, 5 cr |
Person responsible
Pauli Kolisoja
Lessons
| Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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Requirements
Accepted design assignments and a written exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
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Learning outcomes
To familiarize the student with the design criteria of road, street and railway structures, the design of road structures based on the bearing capacity and frost resistance, and the design of drainage and reinforcements of road structures.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Loads acting on road, street and railway structures. | ||
| 2. | Structural types of roads, streets and railways, bound and unbound construction materials and the testing of their properties. | ||
| 3. | Modelling of the mechanical behaviour road, street and railway structures, design of the bearing capacity, design against frost action, interplay of the road pavement and subgrade. | ||
| 4. | Drainage and reinforcement structures for roads. |
Evaluation criteria for the course
Exam 75% and design assignment 25%.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Pavement Analysis and Design | Yang H. Huang | 0-13-655275-7 | English |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies
More precise information per implementation
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