Buddhima Indraratna, Wadud Salim

Mechanics of Ballasted Rail Tracks

A Geotechnical Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended as a reference text for final year civil engineering students and postgraduates, and for practicing railway engineers with the task of modernizing existing designs.

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The strength, deformation and degradation behaviour of ballast and the effectiveness of geosynthetics in stabilising recycled ballast have been described in this book. Relevant experimental procedures and theoretical aspects are discussed, and a new stress-strain constitutive model for ballast is proposed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780415383295
• ISBN-10: 0415383293
• Artikelnr.: 20975037

Autorenporträt

Prof. Buddhima Indraratna is Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Wollongong, Wollongong City, Australia. He has been the team leader of a number of Railway Geotechnology research projects in Australia funded by the Australian Research Council and the Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering in Australia. Dr. Wadud Salim is a Research Engineer at University of Wollongong. He has been working on railway geotechnology for the last 4-5 years. His special interest includes behaviour of railway ballast under cyclic loading. His research projects were sponsored by the Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering, Australia. .

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Track Structure and Loading 3. Factors Governing Ballast
Behaviour 4. State-of-the-Art Triaxial Testing of Ballast 5. Behaviour of
Ballast with and without Geosynthetics 6. Existing Deformation Models 7. A
New Constitutive Model for Ballast 8. Track Drainage and Use of
Geosynthetics 9. Track Maintenance