A fast and accurate method is described for determining the surface movement of railway ballast during a full-scale lateral resistance test. The proposed method utilises commodity camera equipment and open-source Digital Image Correlation (DIC) algorithms, to track individual ballast particles. It does not require time intensive ballast preparation. Tests have been performed under ambient and floodlit conditions, using colour and greyscale processing routes. The results are compared against direct measurements from lateral resistance tests to assess the accuracy of the proposed method, with a range of absolute maximum error between 0.9% and 3.4% under different laboratory conditions. The study shows that this technique is a viable way to track and measure ballast and sleeper movement over wide areas in near real time, which will lead to an increased understanding of the way ballast interactions influence track behaviour.


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    Title :

    Using digital image correlation (DIC) to measure railway ballast movement in full-scale laboratory testing of sleeper lateral resistance


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    Publication date :

    2024-09-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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