Failures of mainline railway sleepers and suggested remedies – Review of current practice

Ferdous, Wahid

doi:10.1016/j.engfailanal.2014.04.020

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“…The most common problems related to concrete sleepers in North America and worldwide are 94 surveyed and ranked in Table 2 (Stuart, 2013;Ferdous and Manalo, 2014). (Stuart, 2013;Ferdous and Manalo, 2014).…”

Section: Fatigue Failure In Concrete Sleepersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Stuart, 2013;Ferdous and Manalo, 2014). From Figure 2, we can see that deterioration, abrasion, and cracking are the main problems related to concrete sleepers (Murray and Cai, 1998 …”

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confidence: 99%

“…The International Federation for Structural Concrete (2006) conducted a worldwide survey of annual demands for different types of sleepers in rail networks and the results are presented in Table 1 (Ferdous and Manalo, 2014). Table 1 illustrates that concrete is the dominant material for sleepers worldwide.…”

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“…A typical railway laying concrete sleeper is shown in Figure 1. (Ferdous and Manalo, 2014 At present, the permissible stress (or allowable stress) method is adopted in many countries in the manufacturing of concrete sleeper design (AS1085.14, 2003American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, 2012). This method relies on the permissible stress of materials and uses a load factor to increase the static axle load to consider dynamic effects (Kaewunruen et al, 2012).…”

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Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

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Ngamkhanong

et al. 2017

Front. Built Environ.

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Concrete sleepers are one of the most important applications of a railway track system. Researchers have previously studied the impact load characteristics and ultimate load carrying capacity of a prestressed sleeper, but research on the fatigue life of prestressed concrete sleepers is limited. Fatigue damage of a prestressed concrete sleeper is mainly due to the accumulation of defects caused by the repeated load of wheel-rail interaction. Fatigue load, fatigue characteristics, and the existing design methods of prestressed concrete sleeper are summarized in this paper. The commonly used fatigue assessment methods of concrete structures are also evaluated. Based on the results of former research, this article presents a convenient fatigue life assessment method for a prestressed concrete sleeper and contrasts with the test results. The insight information gained can be used to evaluate the service performance and predict the fatigue life of the concrete sleeper, as well providing design flexibility and broadening the design principle. The outcome of this study may also improve the rail track maintenance and inspection criteria, in order to establish an appropriate track condition monitoring network in practice.

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Section: Fatigue Failure In Concrete Sleepersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Stuart, 2013;Ferdous and Manalo, 2014). From Figure 2, we can see that deterioration, abrasion, and cracking are the main problems related to concrete sleepers (Murray and Cai, 1998 …”

Section: Fatigue Failure In Concrete Sleepersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

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Ngamkhanong

et al. 2017

Front. Built Environ.

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“…Timber sleepers are in high demand in USA with 13 million timber sleepers in service [3]. Other European countries, Asian countries and Australia, the use of timber sleepers are recorded but the figures are less compared to other sleeper materials [4].…”

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Post-fatigue Behaviour of Kekatong Glued Laminated Timber Railway Sleepers

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The availability of good quality timber log is limited as well as the depleting supply of wide width and long-length structural-grade timbers caused increase in price. However, the usage of timber sleeper is significant to certain location in the track system. Consequently, alternative to replace existing timber sleepers to another timber product is vital and glued laminated timber (glulam) has a potential. Numerous researchers on glulam timber sleeper are focusing on the performance of static flexural study. However, the performance of glulam sleepers under the flexural fatigue is less known. Thus, this study leads to conduct flexural fatigue test in order to identify fatigue resistance of timber sleepers and investigate its behaviour. In addition, this study is carried out to determine the residual strength of timber sleepers after imposed with cyclic loading. A series of test were

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Failure prediction of impact behaviour of self‐compacted rubcrete sleepers

Raj

Nagarajan

Shashikala

2020

Mat Design & Process Comms

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Railway sleepers are used for transferring loads from train wheels to the ballast. Damage to railway sleepers affects the integrity of the rail network. Prestressed concrete sleepers often get damaged during derailments. At the time of the derailment, a high‐magnitude impact load acts for a short duration of time. Damage caused during derailment can be reduced by improving the energy absorption capacity of sleepers. The energy absorption capacity of sleepers can be enhanced by the use of rubber concrete (rubcrete). This paper presents the development of a failure prediction model using finite element analysis to simulate the impact behaviour of self‐compacted rubcrete sleepers. This was validated by conducting limited experimental studies and was found to be in good agreement.

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Failures of mainline railway sleepers and suggested remedies – Review of current practice

Cited by 142 publications

References 35 publications

Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

Post-fatigue Behaviour of Kekatong Glued Laminated Timber Railway Sleepers

Failure prediction of impact behaviour of self‐compacted rubcrete sleepers

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