Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Instructor:
Prof. K. V. Krishna Rao
Slot:
12
Lecture hours: MON 17.05 18.30 & THU 17.05 18.30
Transportation Systems
Highway transportation system
Intercity
Rural
Urban
Airbus 380
Shinkansen
Railway Engineering
Contents
Indian railway track -different gauges, cross sections,
coning of wheels
Components of railway track - rails, sleepers, rail
fixtures and fastenings and ballast
Geometric Design of the track
Points and crossings and track junctions
Traction and tractive resistances
Rail transit operation and capacity
Signaling and interlocking
Texts/References
R. Horonjeff and F. X. Mckelvey, Planning & Design of Airports, Mc
Graw Hill, New York, 1994.
S. K. Khanna, M. G. Arora and S. S. Jain, Airport Planning and
Design, Nemchand Bros., Roorkee, 1994.
N. Ashford and P. H. Wright, Airport Engineering, John Wiley, New
York, 1992.
FAA Advisory Circulars
S. C. Saxena and S. P. Arora, A text Book of Railway Engineering,
Dhanpat Rai & Sons, New Delhi, 1992.
W. W. Hay, Railroad Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, New York,
1988.
Satish Chandra and M. M. Agarwal, Railway Engineering, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2007.
J. S. Mundrey, Railway Track Engineering. Tata McGraw Hill Book
Company, New Delhi, 1990.
Scheme of Evaluation
Quizzes + Assignments:
Mid Semester:
End Semester:
20%
30%;
50%;