A feasibility study on railway ballast damage detection utilizing measured vibration of in situ concrete sleeper

Engineering Structures

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 284-298

  Lam, H F ^a   Wong, M T ^a   Yang, Y B ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concrete sleeper; Damage detection; Modal identification; Model updating; Railway ballast

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CONCRETES; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PLANNING; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; STIFFNESS;

CONCRETE SLEEPER; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; MODAL IDENTIFICATION; MODEL UPDATING; RAILWAY BALLASTS; RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DAMAGE; MODELING; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84864486216     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.06.022     Document Type: Article

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