Evaluation of longitudinal forces on substructure of railway bridges due to increased axle loading and speed through full scale field investigations
B. Arun Sundaram,
Voggu Srinivas,
S. Parivallal
et al.
Abstract:<p>Bridges are the vital link for the highway and railway networks. There has been much progress in bridge design in recent years with increasing use of advanced analytical design methods, use of new materials and new bridge concepts. The new generation of locomotives produce approximately twice the tractive effort of older locomotives due to which the bridge substructures are subjected to greater longitudinal forces than the design load. Instrumentation and field testing has to be carried out in a compr… Show more
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