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Ballast Railroad Design: SMART-UOW Approach
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This book is ideal for railway engineers, practitioners involved in track design and maintenance, postgraduate students, and researchers specialising in railway engineering and transport infrastructure.
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The rail network plays an essential role in transport infrastructure worldwide. This book presents a comprehensive procedure for the design of ballasted tracks based on a rational approach that combines extensive laboratory testing, computational modelling and field measurements conducted over the past two decades.
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The rail network plays an essential role in transport infrastructure worldwide. A ballasted track is commonly used for several reasons, including economic considerations, load-bearing capacity, rapid drainage, and ease of maintenance. Given the ever-increasing demand for trains to carry heavier axle loads at greater speeds, traditional design and construction must undergo inevitable changes for sustainable performance.
Ballast is an unbounded granular assembly that displaces when subjected to repeated train loading, affecting track stability. During heavy haul operations, ballast progressively deteriorates, and the infiltration of fluidised fines (mud pumping) from the underlying substructure and subgrade decreases its shear strength. This process also impedes drainage, while increasing track deformation and associated maintenance.
Ballast Railroad Design: SMART-UOW Approach presents a comprehensive procedure for the design of ballasted tracks based on a rational approach that combines extensive laboratory testing, computational modelling, and field measurements conducted over the past two decades. This book will not only become an imperative design aid for rail practitioners, but will also be a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers alike in railway engineering.
Features:
- Serves as a useful guide to assist the practitioner in new track design as well as remediating existing tracks.
- Research discussed in this book has made a considerable impact on the railway industry.
- Resulting from collaborative research between academia and industry, incorporating sophisticated laboratory tests, computational modelling, and field studies.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781138587038
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 June 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: CRC Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 174.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 720g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Buddhima Indraratna is Professor of Civil Engineering at the Centre for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Trung Ngo is Research Fellow at the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
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