Dynamic flexural influence on a railway concrete sleeper in track system due to a single wheel impact

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 705-712

  Kaewunruen, Sakdirat ^a,b   Remennikov, Alex M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Austrak Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flexural response; Nonlinear transient analysis; Railway concrete sleeper; Sleeper ballast interaction; Tensionless support

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; THEOREM PROVING; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; WHEELS;

FLEXURAL RESPONSE; NONLINEAR TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; RAILWAY CONCRETE SLEEPER; SLEEPER/BALLAST INTERACTION; TENSIONLESS SUPPORT;

RAILS;

EID: 58349101509     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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