This report presents the results of a state-of-the-art review performed in the areas of railroad track structures, railroad design, and railroad evaluation. Described and discussed are the components comprising the railroad track system, railroad design procedures, analytical track response models, track performance models, methods of structural evaluation, rail defect testing, methods of functional evaluation, and the effect of heavy axle loads. Based on the results of this study an analytical track response model was chosen for use in future research into the evaluation of track structures. Three methods for testing track structures were chosen for additional investigation. An evaluation program comprising both structural (load-carrying capacity) and functional evaluation is proposed.
Synthesis of Railroad Design Methods, Track Response Models, and Evaluation Methods for Military Railroads
1985
154 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Railroad Transportation , Railroad tracks , Mathematical models , Response , Test and evaluation , Military applications , Railroads , Structural properties , Models , Capacity(Quantity) , Loads(Forces) , Defects(Materials) , Rail transportation , Test methods , State of the art , Synthesis , Structural analysis
Mexican railroads and railroad traffic
Engineering Index Backfile | 1906
|Railroad accidents on English Railroads
Engineering Index Backfile | 1891
Progress in railroad mechanical engineering. Railroads
Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
Railroad car transporters on German railroads
Engineering Index Backfile | 1950
|