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Innovative ballasted track: concrete sleepers with sole pads

Last updated on 27 September 2013 3:42

Modern ballasted track is characterized by increasing specialization and introduction of new components. Resilience and damping can best be furnished by elastic elements. DB is testing sleepers with elastic sole pads since 4 years. The results of measurement campaigns, laboratory tests and theoretical investigations are very promising. Maintenance intervals (tamping)...

Author(s): M?ller-Boruttau Frank H.;Kleinert Ullrich

Organisation(s): imb-dynamik ; DB AG ;

2001

Germany

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