Nonlinear finite element modeling of railway prestressed concrete sleeper

Real Structures: Bridges and Tall Buildings - Proceedings of the 10th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, EASEC 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 323-328

  Kaewunruen, Sakdirat ^a   Remennikov, Alex M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

And Static analysis; Nonlinear finite element modelling; Pre tensioning; Railway prestressed concrete sleeper or Railroad tie

Indexed keywords

LOAD-DEFLECTION RESPONSE; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; NONLINEAR MATERIAL MODELS; PRE-TENSIONING; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLEEPERS; RAILWAY PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLEEPER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL;

BRIDGES; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CRACKS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; RAILROADS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TALL BUILDINGS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84886664097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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