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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"railway engineering"”.
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Outsourcing railway engineering
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988
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Performance of Geogrid Reinforced Ballast under Dynamic Loading
… of ballast with fines has been a major issue of railway engineering. Fouling could be caused by break down of ballast itself or intrusion of fines from below or from the environment.
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Adhesively bonded composite repairs in marine applications and utility model for selection of their nondestructive evaluation
… aerospace, automotive, civil, marine, and railway engineering, wind power generation, and sporting goods, to name a few. There is, however, only a small open literature base concerning adhesively bonded composite repairs, primarily originating from within the aerospace industry. Moreover, …
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Caractérisation du comportement de dormants ferroviaires en béton précontraint de PRFV
… recommandés par le manuel de l’AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Authority) pour valider l’utilisation des dormants en béton précontraint d’acier. Les résultats des essais réalisés sont analysés et comparés aux exigences recommandées par le manuel de l’AREMA. L’effet des …
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Innovative Design Concepts for Insulated Joints
… (commonly known as "IJ") are widely used on railways to electrically insulate rail segments from each other, while mechanically connecting them together. The electrical insulation is necessary for accommodating track signals. The mechanical strength is needed to ensure the rail and IJs are …
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Flexural behavior of prestressed concrete monoblock crossties
… are encountered. Throughout the international railway community, many methods have been developed to analyze the flexural demand of concrete crossties. The current flexural analysis methodologies contained in American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-way Association (AREMA) Chapter 30, …
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Investigation of aggregate properties influencing railroad ballast performance
… portion of the annual budget to sustain the railway track system goes toward the maintenance and renewal of ballast. Railroad ballast is a uniformly-graded coarse aggregate placed between and immediately underneath the crossties. Large variations in the source properties of new ballast …
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Centrifuge modelling of railway embankments under static and cyclic loading
… of embankments on a heavy haul coal export railway line between Ermelo and Richards Bay in South Africa. The design of these embankments is usually done with slope stability analysis? method of slices. In the case of railway embankments, a uniformly distributed load is applied over a central …
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Characterization of the loading environment for shared-use railway superstructure in North America
… rail, is placing an increasing demand on railway infrastructure. Some of the most critical areas of the infrastructure in need of further research are track components used in high speed passenger, heavy haul, and shared infrastructure applications. In North America, many design guidelines …
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Design and performance evaluation of railway sleeper baseplate hold-down system for timber sleeper elastic fasteners
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01