Development of improved railway track degradation models

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 675-688

  Sadeghi, Javad ^a   Askarinejad, Hossein ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Degradation models; Geometry index; Railway track; Structure index

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION MODEL; DEGRADATION MODELS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; FIELD DATA; FIELD INVESTIGATION; LOADING CONDITION; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES; RAILWAY LINE; RAILWAY TRACK; RAILWAY TRACK STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL CONDITION; TRACK DEGRADATION; TRACK DETERIORATION; TRACK GEOMETRY; TRACK MAINTENANCE; TRACK QUALITY; TRACK SAFETY; TRACK STRUCTURE; VISUAL INSPECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEGRADATION; MAINTAINABILITY; RAILROAD TRACKS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

RAILROADS;

EID: 77955326110     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470801902436     Document Type: Article

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