Enabling students for acquiring professional knowledge and application in practice

Acquired knowledge is used in professional work in the field of roads.

Introduction – history, basic postulates, types and specificities of road structures. Road mechanics – models of road structures, fundamental physical and mechanical properties and material fatigue, breaking definitions. Input data – traffic load, formation level, road structure layers – materials. Dimensioning based on empirical methods and calculation models based on road mechanics. Application in diverse road types: flexible, semi-stiff and stiff. Influence of climatic and other factors. Evaluation of road conditions, condition indicators. Designing reinforcement for existing roads.

Lectures, practice, consultations. Continuous monitoring and evaluation of students.