Progressive failure of prestressed concrete sleepers under multiple high-intensity impact loads

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2460-2473

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

^a RailCorp Track Engineering   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accumulative damage; Ballasted railway track; Crack propagation; Prestressed concrete sleeper; Progressive impact behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATIVE DAMAGE; BALLASTED RAILWAY TRACK; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DESIGN LIFE; DROP HEIGHT; DROP-WEIGHT IMPACT TESTING; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH-CAPACITY; IMPACT DAMAGES; IMPACT FORCE; IMPACT LOADS; IMPACT RESPONSE; IN-SITU; LIMIT STATES DESIGN; LOADING CONDITION; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLEEPER; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLEEPERS; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE; PROGRESSIVE IMPACT BEHAVIOUR; RAILWAY TRACK; RAILWAY TRACK STRUCTURES; REPEATED IMPACT; SHORT DURATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TRAIN OPERATIONS; ULTIMATE FAILURE; WHEEL LOADS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DESIGN; IMPACT TESTING; LOADS (FORCES); PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; RAILROADS; RAILS; ROPE; WHEELS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FAILURE MECHANISM; LOADING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 70349109078     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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