Topic is ballast and sub-ballast.
OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this module is to develop practical and analytical understanding of the complex and multi-disciplinary nature of railways, and to provide students with an understanding of the economics of designing, building, maintaining and renewing them. It covers the theory and practice of permanent way design for railways, and includes the interfaces with other disciplines. Students will apply their learning to design work.
OUTCOMES:
1. Employ methods of analysis for railway economics.
2. Apply understanding of the key issues in operations and safety.
3. Evaluate the principles of maintenance and performance.
4. Calculate and tabulate data for plain line design.
5. Apply industry standards in gauging and clearances design, including use of software, and demonstrate understanding of situations in which standards are not appropriate.
6. Demonstrate understanding of the contents and use of industry manuals of trackbed and drainage design.
Task 1:
Suppose that you are technical engineer in a railway company (trading, manufacturer, Vendor). You may be the owner of factory that has product line of one of railway track components such as fastening systems, Rail Joints, Sleeper (wooden, concrete, Steel, composite), welding system, machineries, .etc. In addition, you may have quarries for ballast and sub-ballast aggregates (formation layer) to produce suitable ballast aggregate for railway track.
For selling your products if you want to demonstrate and identify your productions or supply and provide the components, the client/buyer ask you to prepare a technical report involving all technical aspects to illustrate the capabilities and usage. So, Students are requested to prepare a technical report including:
- Product Description
- Design steps
- Technical specification
- Using and installing method
- Machinery with is needed to implement.
- Operation and Maintenance aspects
- Product illustration with sufficient and adequate pictures
- Cost of your products
- Condition and place of using (weather, max/min temperature, working restrictions)
- Other related things.
For doing the project, you can select one of the track component arbitrarily and choose one company (real or virtual) through the world to use its technical data and information.
Please note that proper referencing and paraphrasing must be carried out when using a document as a reference for your work. It is necessary to cover most of feasible and probabilistic technical questions from client/buyer side in your report clearly.
In the end (conclusion part), make tabular information as far as possible in a glance for your mentioned production.
Report Sections
The report should contain the following sections:
- Introduction
- Main body
- Conclusions
- References and contacts
1. Introduction
- What is your products?
- Company history and information, establishing, capability, capacity,...
- Give the general plan of the report
2. Main body
- Discuss the properties of products,
- Answer to the mentioned items above.
- Get the results and analysis if any.
- Headings should be informative and descriptive providing a clue to the contents of the section.
- Use suitable and accurate references for each paragraph that you take from others
- Each picture should have capture and a reference(s)
3. Conclusions
- Synopsis
- State briefly, what the major specification are and provide tabular data.
4. References
List alphabetically your references which should include: Journal papers, proceedings, books, book chapters, internet sources etc.
Students must refer to Student Handbook for refereeing method preferred in Middle East College.
5. Appendix
Any additional figures, tables, and photos.