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Jia, W. (author)
The ballast bed of a railway track consists of two granular layers, the ballast layer and the sub-ballast layer, and it is typically constructed of crushed, angular hard rocks. Studies on ballast degradation and structural performance improvement is needed to optimise reliability, availability, maintainability and safety of the railway track....
doctoral thesis 2023
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Jin, J. (author)
Laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) is a vibration-detecting instrument for noncontact and non-destructive measurement. It is superior to classic contact transducers in terms of the wide frequency range and high measurement resolution. LDV on moving platforms (LDVom) is one of the LDV measurement technology to one-way scan the vibrating surface, so...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Shen, C. (author)
This thesis transforms the way we understand and monitor rail infrastructure with a digital twin that merges measurement data and physics-based models to deliver instant insights. This thesis will be of particular interest to professionals in the rail industry seeking to answer the following questions: What are the key features in the...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Li, S. (author)
Short pitch corrugation is a (quasi-) sinusoidal rail vertical defect on rail surface, and it was first found more than one century ago. The wavelength of short pitch corrugation is 20-80 mm, and its amplitude can be up to 100 µm. It mainly develops on straight tracks or at gentle curves with comparatively light axle loads. Due to short pitch...
doctoral thesis 2022
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Guo, Y. (author)
doctoral thesis 2021
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Hajizad, O. (author)
In this PhD thesis, we investigated possible steel candidates for use in railway crossings in order to reduce the damage in them. Pearlitic R350HT together with Bainitic grades including CrB, B1400 and carbide free B360 were investigated for their mechanical properties such as ultimate strength, yield strength, ductility and hardness. The...
doctoral thesis 2021
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Liu, X. (author)
Railway crossings are essential components of the railway track system that allow trains to switch from one track to another. Due to the complex wheel-rail interaction in the crossing panel, crossings are vulnerable elements of railway infrastructure and usually have short service lives. The crossing damage not only results in substantial...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Naeimi, M. (author)
Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) is an important form of damage in wheels and rails that typically has surface and subsurface cracks. Squats are one of the major RCF defects that occur in the running band of rails and can create high dynamic forces and cause rail fracture if they are not detected and treated in time. In the current research, three...
doctoral thesis 2020
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Wang, H. (author)
Railway catenary is the main infrastructure that delivers electric power for train operation. It is a structure commonly constructed along the railway line with contact wires suspended above the track. One or multiple pantographs mounted on the roof of a moving train collects electric current from the catenary through the sliding contact with a...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Hiensch, E.J.M. (author)
doctoral thesis 2019
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Jamshidi, A. (author)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enable the infrastructure manager to keep the performance quality of the infrastructure at an acceptable level. A KPI must include specific features of the infrastructure such as functionality and criticality. The KPIs can be classified into three performance levels: (1) technical level KPIs; (2) tactical level...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Deng, X. (author)
One goal of this thesis is to study the performance and accuracy of an explicit finite element (FE) method for frictional rolling contact in a wider-range of conditions. The other goal is to reveal the physical phenomena of squats and the mechanisms behind, such as cracking mechanisms and development process. The first part studies the...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Smolders, A.L. (author)
Scientists say that trust in inter-organisational relationships leads to high performance, project success, and better quality in construction work. Later research shows that distrust also plays an important role in preventing excessive trust in relationships. It is better to say that a stable state of trust is the balance between trust and...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Wang, Haoyu (author)
Transition zones in railway tracks are locations with considerable changes in the vertical stiffness of the track support, which can be found near bridges, culverts and tunnels. In such locations, the stiffness variation and the differential settlement of tracks (uneven settlement of the track on the embankment and of the engineering structure)...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Ma, Y. (author)
Nowadays, wheel-rail (W/R) interfaces are suffering from the practical problems (e.g. wear, rolling contact defects) with the increase of train speed and traffic density. For accurate prediction of wear and/or growth of rolling contact defects, rapid determination of detailed contact responses (i.e. contact stresses & strains) using...
doctoral thesis 2018
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Yang, Z. (author)
The modelling of wheel-rail dynamic interactions is crucial for accurately predicting wheel/track deterioration and dynamic behaviour. A reliable wheel-rail dynamic interaction model requires a careful treatment of wheel-rail frictional rolling contact and a proper consideration of dynamic effects related to the contact. Since the wheel-rail...
doctoral thesis 2018
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Wei, Z. (author)
This dissertation aims to gain a better understanding of the dynamic wheel-rail interaction at crossings, including characterizing the wheel-rail contact behavior, evaluating the performance of crossings under traffic loads and monitoring the health condition of the structure. The first part of this dissertation focuses on an in-depth analysis...
doctoral thesis 2018
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Xin, L. (author)
Railway turnouts are important components of railway infrastructure as they provide flexibility and guidance to the rail traffic. Because of geometrical discontinuities in the crossing area of the turnouts, high impact forces due to passing wheels acting on the crossing nose can occur. In the field, severe rail damage problems are found in...
doctoral thesis 2017
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Molodova, M. (author)
This thesis discusses a new method for detection of short track irregularities, particularly squats, with axle box acceleration (ABA) measurements. A squat is a surface initiated short track defect, associated with high frequency vibrations of the wheel-rail system. High stresses in the contact patch at squats cause accumulation of plastic...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Zhao, X. (author)
Squats, as a kind of short wavelength rail surface defects, have become one of the main rolling contact fatigue problems in railways worldwide. The purpose of this work is to better understand the squatting phenomenon, contribute to reduction and even prevention of squat occurrence, and thereby reduce the related costs. To such an end, a new...
doctoral thesis 2012
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