Unit 1 Development and Technical Characteristics of Railways 1
1.1 Overseas High-speed Railway Development 3
1.2 Speeding-up reconstruction of railways in China 13
1.3 Medium and long-term plans for China's railways 18
1.4 Main types of China’s passenger dedicated railways 20
1.5 China’s construction technologies for high-speed railways 21
1.6 History of high-speed railway development in China 38
Unit 2 Management of Railway Engineering Consultation 45
2.1 Construction process and management of China’srailways 46
2.2 Organization structure for railway engineering consultation and responsibilities of key personnel 47
2.3 Consultation quality plan 50
2.4 Control of consultation process 51
2.5 Control of consultation results 53
2.6 Consultation management systems 54
2.7 Working procedures of consultation 57
2.8 Consultation risk management 67
Unit 3 Methods for Railway Engineering Consultation 75
3.1 Overview 76
3.2 Stage division of consultation work 76
3.3 Investigation method 78
3.4 Observation method 87
3.5 Experiment method 101
3.6 Simulation method 108
3.7 Question-raising method 112
3.8 Induction method 118
3.9 Analogy Method 121
3.10 Deduction method 127
3.11 Systematic method 128
3.12 Feedback method 135
3.13 Others 135
Unit 4 Key Points of Railway Engineering Consultation 137
4.1 Design optimization consultation 138
4.2 Construction drawing review consultation 146
4.3 Construction process consultation 153
4.4 Special consultation 157
Unit 5 Cases of Railway Engineering Consultation 191
5.1 Consultation on dynamic responses of transition sections among subgrade, bridges, tunnels and culverts of a certain high-speed railway 192
5.2 Consultation on stress on girder end of intercity railway simply supported girder 223
5.3 Consultation on the improvement design of filling material ofXiashu clay for the subgrade of the high-speed railway 233
5.4 Consultation on reasonable pier type of the high-speed railway 237
5.5 Consultation on the river-crossing tunnel works of a certain high-speed railway 249
References 258
