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Xinrui He, Wenli Jia, Yuxiang Dong and Mohammad Siahkouhi
The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the railwa...
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Md. Al-Masrur Khan, Seong-Hoon Kee and Abdullah-Al Nahid
Crack inspection in railway sleepers is crucial for ensuring rail safety and avoiding deadly accidents. Traditional methods for detecting cracks on railway sleepers are very time-consuming and lack efficiency. Therefore, nowadays, researchers are paying ...
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Teresa Fazia, Francesco Bubbico, Andrea Nova, Salvatore Bruno, Davide Iozzi, Beril Calgan, Giancarlo Caimi, Michele Terzaghi, Raffaele Manni and Luisa Bernardinelli
Sleep of inadequate quantity and quality is increasing in the present 24 h society, with a negative impact on physical and mental health. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) generate a state of calm behavior that can reduce hyperactivity and improve s...
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Szabolcs Fischer, Dalma Németh and Henriett Horváth
In this paper, the authors examined the change in track gauges in curves for several railway lines with low and high traffic in Hungary (i.e., secondary lines and main lines). They covered the processing of raw data as well as statistical calculations. T...
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Xianmai Chen, Nan Chen, Zilong Wei, Xiangmin Zhang, Fei Yang, Hongjun Zhao, Mingxi You and Weidong Wang
The load generated during train operation is transmitted to sleepers through rails, and then from sleepers to trackbeds. As one of the important components of the track structure, sleepers are very important to the service-life and safety of railways. Th...
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?tefan Markulik, Jozef Petrík, Marek ?olc, Peter Bla?ko, Pavol Palfy, Andrea Sütoová and Lenka Girmanová
Industries demand that their products are high quality with the least number of defects due to the rapid improvement in manufacturing technology. Quality is a critical criterion for evaluation in manufacturing firms. The production of a final product tha...
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Roberto Sañudo, Marina Miranda, Borja Alonso and Valeri Markine
Sleeper spacing has been a taboo subject throughout the railway?s history. Safety concerns related to the structural integrity have been the main causes of not addressing this matter. There are no specific and clear recommendations or guidelines in relat...
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Stefan Marschnig, Ursula Ehrhart and Stefan Offenbacher
The positive effects of under sleeper pads have already been proven by track and laboratory tests worldwide. In Austria, padded concrete sleepers reduce track deterioration by 50 percent and have therefore been used as standard components since 2010. As ...
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Hongyin Yang, Nanhao Wu, Wei Zhang, Zhangjun Liu, Jianfeng Fan and Changjun Wang
An improved spatial vehicle?track?bridge interaction system considering the unsupported track is proposed using the virtual work principle. When the track fails to be supported due to the defects under the track, the corresponding bridge?rail connection ...
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Zhenkui Wang and C. Guedes Soares
Buckle-initiation techniques, such as sleepers, are usually installed to trigger lateral buckling at pre-designated locations to release the axial compressive forces induced by thermal loading. Taking the nonlinear pipe?soil interaction model into accoun...
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