Impact Capacity Reduction in Railway Prestressed Concrete Sleepers with Surface Abrasions

Commentary: Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

Fatigue Life Assessment Method for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers

Railway Engineering Institute, China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing, China, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom, Department of Civil Engineering, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Uni...

Investigation on simulation of train loading on prestressed concrete sleepers

Railway concrete sleepers have been developed and utilized in railway industry for over 50 years. Cyclic loading because of vibration on sleepers due to the train loading and the velocity of train itself and also a small percentage of bad wheels, can eventually lead to a crack network and failure of component. The objective of this study is to investigate the load carrying capacity of the selec...

Prestressed Concrete Piles

A state of the art presentation on prestressed piling as used throughout the world is discussed in this General Report to the FIP Symposium on Mass-Produced Prestressed Precast Elements in Madrid, Spain, May 1968. Historical information, design data and notes along with manufacturing techniques, installation practices, discussion of problems and failures and a complete bibliography are all cove...

Embedding Wireless Sensors in Railway Sleepers

In recent years there has been intensive research and development in the application of wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies to various sectors such as healthcare, home automation, environmental monitoring and the monitoring of large structures, eg, buildings and bridges. The monitoring of railway infrastructure such as the tracks, bearers and sleepers is another area that could potential...