As we examined in Section IV, “deterioration or degradation is the reduction of the original quality due to use and/or environmental influences”. In par. 18.2 we identified that three main groups of factors may be distinguished that contribute to the deterioration of railway infrastructure:

    Use: wear by physical contact, static and dynamic load

    Environment: climatic influence, water

    Failures: faulty components, bad construction

    In most of the cases it is not just one of these factors that causes deterioration, but a combination of them.


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    Title :

    Factors Affecting the Track Quality Behaviour


    Additional title:

    Springer Tracts on Transportation, Traffic


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013-01-01


    Size :

    4 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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