A method for assessing the life cycle costs of modifications to ballasted track systems Georgios Rempelosa Alejandro Ortegaa Simon Blaineya John Prestona Louis Le Penb John Armstronga a Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, b Infrastructure Research Group, University of Southampton, Available online 6 September 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061820326088 Construction and Building Materials Volume 263, 10 December 2020, …
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Jul 03
Analysis of a bridge approach: long-term behaviour from short-term response
Giacomo Ognibene, Prof William Powrie, Dr Louis Le Pen and Dr John Harkness 15th Railway Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, U.K. 3rd July 2019 Abstract Transition zones are locations where trackbed support conditions change abruptly, for example from an earth embankment onto a bridge. The track geometry at these sites degrades faster than regular railway track, requiring …