Study on the optimum size of railway sleeper for ballasted track

Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Namura, Akira ^a,b   Kohata, Yukihiro ^a,c   Miura, Seiichi ^a,d  

^a JSCE ^*  (Japan)

^b RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic loading; Full Scale model test; Maintenance; Track settlement

Indexed keywords

FE LINEAR ELASTIC ANALYSES; FULL- SCALE MODEL TEST; SLEEPER SIZE; TRACK SETTLEMENT;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLIC LOADS; ELASTICITY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 31444454044     PISSN: 02898063     EISSN: 02898063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2208/jsceseee.22.245s     Document Type: Article

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