Transportation
Engineering-II syllabus for Midterm:
Introduction
Permanent way: Sub-grade, formation, embankment and
cutting, track drainage.
Rails: Rail gauges, types of rails, defects in rails, rail failure, creep of
rail, Coning of Wheels, Rail Joints.
Sleepers: Timber, steel, cast iron, concrete and prestressed
concrete sleepers, manufacturing of concrete sleepers, sleeper density, Adzing
of Sleepers.
Ballast:
Ballast materials, size of ballast, tests on ballast.
Rail Fastenings: Fish plates, spikes, chairs, keys, bearing
plates.
Railway Geometric :
Gradients, horizontal curves, super-elevation, deficiency, negative
super elevation, compensation for curvature on gradients.
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