NDT to determine stiffness and fouling of ballast and trackbed on high speed rail alignments

Last updated on 05 September 2011 7:29
The increase in freight and passenger rail travel has driven demand for more efficient and rapid investigation of railway trackbed ballast. One of the current approaches to evaluating the stiffness of railway ballast is to use a Falling Weight Deflectometer. Whilst this is very effective, it requires the rails...
Author(s): De Bold R.;Connolly D.;Patience S.;Forde M.C.
Organisation(s): University of Edinburgh ;
2011
United Kingdom
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