Railway ballast

Railway ballast

Guo, Y. (TU Delft Railway Engineering)
Jing, Guoqing (Beijing Jiaotong University)
Markine, V.L. (TU Delft Railway Engineering)

Calçada, Rui (editor)
Kaewunruen, Sakdirat (editor)

2022

Railway ballast is normally made of crushed rocks with grading (particle size distributions). Ballast is inevitably suffering from more rapid degradation. Because ballast keeps undergoing and dissipating most of the train loadings, furthermore, the train speed and freight weight are increasing, causing more intensive loadings to ballast. To prolong ballast service time and reduce ballast maintenance cost, more studies need to be performed on the ballast degradation reduction, ballast inspection, and ballast assessment. Therefore, earlier distinguished studies on these three aspects are introduced, summarized and discussed in this chapter, toward the final goal of providing research gaps, engineering guidance, and maintenance advice.

Ballast assessment
Ballast degradation
Ballast inspection
Ballast morphology
Ballast rheology
Image analysis
Particle image velocimetry
Railway ballast

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0ffc9f1a-1961-4b6e-b236-33c0fae48fb1

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821042-0.00021-6

Elsevier

2023-07-01

9780128210437

Rail Infrastructure Resilience: A Best-Practices Handbook

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