Measurements of transient ground movements below a ballasted railway line

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 667-677

  Priest, J A ^a   Powrie, W ^a   Yang, L ^b   Grabe, P J ^c   Clayton, C R I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ethiopian Roads Authority   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Deformation; Dynamics; Field instrumentation; In situ testing; Monitoring; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; COMBINED EFFECT; FIELD INSTRUMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; GROUND MOVEMENT; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; HORIZONTAL MOTION; IN-SITU TESTING; LOADING FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RAILWAY LINE; RAILWAY TRACK; SLEEPER DISPLACEMENT; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

AXLES; BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; RAILROADS; WHEELS;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOVEMENT; IN SITU TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY;

EID: 77955908812     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.7.00172     Document Type: Article

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