Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track

Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track explores the optimization of railway ballast tracks to achieve resilience, sustainability, and intelligence in railway infrastructure. It summarizes and examines new technologies and developments that address unresolved rapid defects in track components: such as rail damage, track stability, ballast flight, and ballast fouling. The book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including tyre-derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue). Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track examines the state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots Includes research methodologies and directions for optimizing track structure, applying new materials, and incorporating new AI and inspection technologiesCovers the basic principles and technologies of railway structures to enhance an understanding of railway engineeringProvides information on railway asset management and solutions for railway infrastructure issues for the industry, railway managers, and other stakeholders INDICE: 1. Ballast and ballasted track2. Ballast material selection and evaluation3. Special structures4. Geotechnical laboratory test on ballast5. Sleeper-ballast interactions (lateral resistance)6. Sleeper-ballast interaction (longitudinal resistance)7. Sleeper-ballast interaction (vertical stiffness)8. Rail and management9. Recycled materials of railway sleeper10. Smart railway sleeper11. Composite materials of ballasted track12. Image analysis for ballast13. Discrete element method application14. Polyurethane reinforced ballasted track15. Ballast flight16. Drainage17. Inspection Robots18. Maintenance and management19. Railway ballast fouling-mechanism, inspection and solutions20. Developing trend and perspectives

• ISBN: 978-0-443-33368-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 600
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés