Measuring the strength of railway ballast

Ground Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-28

  McDowell, Glenn R ^a   Lim, Wee L ^a   Collop, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; DEGRADATION; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEEL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE STRESS;

UNCONSTRAINED COMMINUTION;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK);

ABRASION; BALLAST; COMMINUTION; CRUSHING; RAILWAY; SIZE EFFECT; STRENGTH;

EID: 0037219306     PISSN: 00174653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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