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A comparison of railway track foundation design methods

Last updated on 19 September 2014 12:13

One of the primary functions of the layers that make up the trackbed in a conventional railway track system is to distribute wheel/rail contact forces so that the stresses in the subgrade are of an acceptable level. To ensure that the trackbed layers perform this task adequately, there are a...

Author(s): Burrow M P N;Bowness D;Ghataora G S

Organisation(s): Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK ; School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK ;

2007

United Kingdom

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