Special transportation structures

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI
FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Profile: CONSTRUCTIONS Master
Speciality: STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

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Subject

SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION STRUCTURES
(STS)
Part One ( Course)
Part Two ( Course)
Part Three ( Appendix 1. Written Test on STS;/ Notes for Guidance on STS: ngl1.ppt...ngl11 ppt)

Radu ANDREI, PhD, P.E.,
Professor of Transportation Engineering

Iasi
2005/2006

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CONTENTS
( draft) :

Preface

Chapter
No.

Title

Number of hours Lecture No

Pages

Notes for Guidance

Lecture One

4…8

ng sts l1.ppt

Lecture
Two

9…13

ng sts l2.ppt

Lecture
Three

13…18

-

Lecture
Four

19,,,38

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Lecture
Five
Lecture Six

39…45

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Observations

SPECIAL
TRANSPORTATION
STRUCTURES
(STS)
Part One ( Course)
1.

Introduction in Transportation
Engineering

4h

The Profession of Transportation
Engineering. Transportation Systems.
Surface transportation Structures.
Transportation Engineering Actual
Challenges and Research Trends.
Trans-European Transport
Infrastructure Network and

Perspectives on European Road
Infrastructure Research
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3

4

Highway Design Procedures Route
Selection and Principles of Location and Survey.

2h

Highway infrastructure. Highway design procedure. The highway capacity Route geometric design, horizontal alignment. Circular curves.
Transition curves . Super-elevation, sight distance and widening in horizontal curves.

4h

Highway infrastructure . Route geometric design, vertical alignment, the vertical profile. Transverse profiles. Sight distance in vertical

2h

46…50

ng sts l6.ppt

Lecture
Seven
Lecture
Eight
Lecture
Nine
Lecture
Ten

51…67

ng sts l7.ppt

68…80

ng sts l8.ppt

81…91

ng sts l9.ppt

92…97

ng sts l10.ppt Lecture
Eleven

98…103

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alignment .
Principles for the design and construction of highway, railway and