Consideration of the elastic strain recovery rates of the formation layers of a railway track

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Vandoorne, Rick
Grabe, Petrus Johannes

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South African Institution of Civil Engineering

Abstract

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 of this study (a final-year BEng research project) was to aid the progression towards more cost-effective railway infrastructure by understanding the strain recovery process of the formation layers.

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Maintenance, Railway track, Formation layers, Costs, Railway engineering

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Vandoorne, R & Grabe, H 2015, 'Consideration of the elastic strain recovery rates of the formation layers of a railway track', Civil Engineering, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 17-19.