Rail pad is one of the main components in ballasted railway track systems. It is...

In general, cracks in structural members indicate a level of serviceability of the engineering structures....

Cracks in railway prestressed concrete sleepers are often caused by the infrequent but high magnitude...

The present paper deals with experimental and numerical investigations of the static and impact behaviours...

The applications of NDT are varied and recently, an NDT technique known as ‘modal analysis’...

This paper is concerned with an accurate prediction of the effects of adjacent structures on...

The repeated impact of train wheels over sleepers can reduce the lifetime of a sleeper...

In recent years, the explosive devices have become the weapon of choice for the majority...

Although vibration measurements are very useful and common in practice nowadays in many applications related...

Today vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) has been widely used in many applications, i.e. mechanical,...

Recent findings indicate one of major causes of damages, which is attributed to the resonant...

Water control has been and remains a fundamentally important aspect of underground coal mine design...

Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of ventilation control devices (VCDs) to safely resist...

The prestressed concrete sleepers (or railroad ties), which are installed in railway track systems as...

Current design philosophy, outlined in AS 1085.14, is based on the analysis of permissible stresses...

Commonly, railway tracks suffer with the extreme loading conditions, which are attributed to the train...

Interactions between the wheel of rolling stocks and the rail often generate interfacial impact forces...

This paper carries out the assessment of reliability indices of railway prestressed concrete sleepers designed...

Premature cracking of prestressed concrete sleepers has been found in railway tracks. The major cause...

Rail pads are a major component of ballasted railway tracks. It helps attenuate the excessive...

The nature of loading conditions on railway tracks is mostly of regular loading patterns due...

Railway sleeper is a main part of railway track structures. Its role is to distribute...

Extreme loading conditions on railway tracks may include dynamic impact loads with very high magnitude...

Railway prestressed concrete sleepers are required to resist repetitive impact stress waves from dynamic interactions...

Railway prestressed concrete sleeper or so-called "concrete tie" is an important component of railway track...

Ever increasing axle loads and train speeds are pressing track owners to extract as much...

Wheel/rail interactions often generate interface impact forces to railway tracks due to the wheel/rail abnormalities....

There are instances where reinforced concrete structures designed for static loads are subjected to accidental...

Rail pad is an important component in ballasted railway track. Its main function is to...

Failure mechanisms of engineering structures to various loadings are the key indicators for structural engineers...

In-field testing for structural integrity using dynamic non-destructive investigation of ballasted railway track structures was...

Three-dimensional nonlinear finite element model of railway prestressed concrete sleeper has been developed in this...

Railway prestressed concrete sleeper is an imperative component of ballasted railway tracks. Its main function...

Impact loads applied to concrete sleepers, either due to the wheel flats of a train...

Assessment of condition of railway track is crucial for track design, repair and effective maintenance...

In ballasted railway track, the deterioration of a sleeper and ballast support usually occurs due...

In this paper, experimental modal testing is used in relation to solving problems in railway...

This paper presents results of an experimental modal analysis of prestressed concrete sleepers in both...

Both bolt profile shape and profile spacing (rib spacing) have been found to influence the...