Effects of Young's modulus on response of railway sleeper

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 700-711

  Shokrieh, Mahmood M ^a   Rahmat, Meysam ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Elastic foundation; Finite element; Sleeper; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS;

ELASTIC FOUNDATION; RAILWAY SLEEPER; WINKLER'S THEOREM;

RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES;

EID: 33751286695     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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