Field trials for dynamic characteristics of railway track and its components using impact excitation technique

NDT and E International

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 510-519

  Kaewunruen, Sakdirat ^a   Remennikov, Alex M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concrete sleeper; Condition assessment; Dynamic characteristics; Field trials; Impact excitation; Modal testing; Rail pad; Railway track; Track simulation

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE SLEEPER; CONDITION ASSESSMENT; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS (FRF); IMPACT EXCITATION; RAIL PAD; RAILWAY TRACK; TRACK SIMULATION;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMPACT STRENGTH; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 34447276920     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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