Determination of the Transverse Resistance Characteristics in Railway Track
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 12
Abstract
The paper deals with transverse resistance problems occurring in railway ballast bed viewed from the standpoint of construction, maintenance, and safety of the railway track in use. Various ways of an analytical approach to the phenomenon tested using illustrative examples of mathematical models found in literature have been analyzed. A survey has been made into the current state of experimental works related to transverse resistances, and different methods of conducting such experiments in railway track during operation have been discussed. Furthermore, the idea of undertaking research, by a group of scientists from the Gdansk University of Technology, on the application of the tamping machine, is considered. Attention is focused on the process of preparing and carrying out the experimental works on transverse resistances, inclusive of an appropriate measuring system. The results of the experiments were analyzed and are included in the paper. The topic on how to deal with the time signals obtained from measurements and how to interpret them is discussed. The basic part of the paper is related to the theory of modeling the railway track structure paying special attention to the presented experimental work. An explanation has been provided to the mathematical description of the adopted model. The presented algorithm makes allowance for running simulation of the phenomenon on computer. The results obtained from simulation and experiments were aimed at convergence. Finally the results of such a simulation to enable a numerical description of the transverse resistance to the rail track ballast bed are tested.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 12 • December 2010
Pages: 1057 - 1067
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Received: Oct 16, 2009
Accepted: Apr 1, 2010
Published online: Apr 26, 2010
Published in print: Dec 2010
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