Railway and Airport Engineering
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Railway and Airport Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Railway and Airport Engineering (subject code 3170619) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 2 units, covering 69 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170619)Unit 1 Module 1
- General: Development of railways in India
- Permanent way and railway track components
- different gauges in India
- conning of wheels
- Functions of various Components - Rails
- Sleepers and Ballast
- Rails - types of rails
- rail sections
- defects in rails
- creep of rails
- rail fixtures and fastenings
- rail joints and welding of rails
- sleepers – types
- spacing and density
- Ballast – types
- advantages and disadvantages
- Subgrade – Requirement
- embankment. 2 Module 2: Geometric design of railway track: gradients
- grade compensation
- speed of trains on curves
- super elevation
- cant deficiency
- negative super elevation
- widening on curves
- Track layouts
- Tongue Rails
- Layout of Turnout – Double Turnout
- Diamond crossing
- Scissors crossing. 3 Module 3: Railway station and Yard: Railway traction and track resistance
- stresses in railway track – rails
- Points and crossings – turnouts
- Track junctions – types
- GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Engineering Subject Code: 3170619 w.e.f
- AY 2019-20 Course Outcomes: At the end of the course
Unit 2 Module 4
- General: History
- policy of air transport
- air transport authorities
- air transport activities
- air crafts and its characteristics
- airport classifications as per ICAO. 5 Module 5: Airport Planning: Regional planning-concepts and advantages
- location and planning of airport as per ICAO and FAA
- Airport Master plan
- Airport site selection
- Zoning laws
- Airport Elements -airfield
- terminal area
- classification of obstructions
- approach zone
- turning zone
- airport capacity
- runway capacity
- estimation of future air traffic
- development of new airport
- requirements of an ideal airport layout. 6 Module :6 Run Way Design: Wind rose and orientation of runway
- wind coverage and crosswind component
- factors affecting runway length
- basic runway length and corrections to runway length
- runway geometrics and runway patterns (configurations)
- Runway marking
- threshold limits cross section of runway
- Taxiway Design: Controlling factors
- taxiway geometric elements
- exit taxiway
- location and geometrics
- holding apron
- turnaround facility
- Aprons -locations
- gate positions
- aircraft parking configurations and parking systems
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