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Proposal for Unsupported Sleeper Detection Method and Utilization in Track Maintenance

Last updated on 01 March 2022 10:12

Unsupported sleepers on a ballasted track would bring about rapid track subsidence and decrease the safety margin for lateral stability of the track. However, to date no high-precision method for detecting unsupported sleepers on railway tracks has been proposed, and the actual distribution of unsupported sleepers along the track is...

Author(s): Daiki YAMAOKA;Masanobu KUSUDA;Hirofumi TANAKA;Mami MATSUMOTO;Hiroo KATAOKA

Organisation(s): Railway Techinical Research Institute (RTRI) ;

2022

Japan

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