Settlement of railway track near bridge abutments

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-73

  Hunt, H E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); CALCULATIONS; FOUNDATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

FOUNDATION STIFFNESS; TRACK DESIGN; TRACK SETTLEMENT;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FOUNDATION; RAILWAY TRACK; SETTLEMENT;

EID: 0031080657     PISSN: 0965092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/itran.1997.29182     Document Type: Article

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