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
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
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.