Effect of improper ballast packing/tamping on dynamic behaviors of on-track railway concrete sleeper

International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 167-177

  Kaewunruen, Sakdirat ^a   Remennikov, Alex M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ballast tamping or packing; Finite elements; Free vibrations; In situ railway concrete sleepers; Nonlinear boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

BALLAST TAMPING; FREE VIBRATIONS; IN SITU RAILWAY CONCRETE SLEEPERS; NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK);

EID: 33947217426     PISSN: 02194554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455407002174     Document Type: Article

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