Browsing Research Articles (Civil Engineering) by Subject "Railway track"

Browsing Research Articles (Civil Engineering) by Subject "Railway track"

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  • Consideration of the elastic strain recovery rates of the formation layers of a railway track 
    Vandoorne, Rick; Grabe, Petrus Johannes (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2015-05)
    Maintenance makes up a significant portion of the total life cycle costs of a railway track. The condition of the formation layers of a railway track dictates these maintenance costs to a large extent. The purpose ...
  • Deterioration of rail track geometry 
    Kearsley, Elsabe P.; Van As, S.C. (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 1995)
    The condition of a railway track tends to deteriorate with time. The objective of this paper is to investigate this deterioration and to determine whether improvements in track geometry can retard the deterioration, and ...
  • The effects of fastening strength on the variation in stress-free temperature in continuous welded rail 
    Grabe, Petrus Johannes; Jacobs, Dylan (Sage, 2016-03)
    Continuous welded rail (CWR) is a fundamental component of any modern track structure and has several advantages over former types of rail joining processes. The reduction in maintenance and related costs has become the ...
  • The stiffess of unsaturated railway formations 
    Otter, Louise; Clayton, Christopher Robert I.; Priest, Jeffery A.; Grabe, Petrus Johannes (Sage, 2016-05)
    The rational design of a substructure to support a rail track requires an estimation of the stiffness value of the formation on which it is to be built. Stiffness values derived from back-analyses of deformations of the ...