QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES IN THE PRODUCTION OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE SLEEPERS

Precasting ensures consistent quality and improved performance of finished components owing to stringent quality control measures generally adopted during their production. Among the many precast concrete components used in buildings and other structures, the prestressed concrete monoblock railway sleeper merits special attention, because of the very high degree of quality control required to be exercised during its production. The paper briefly describes the influence of some of the major parameters on the production and testing of prestressed concrete sleepers.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Controle de Qualite des Structures en Beton, Proceeding Volume, Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-21, 1979.
• Corporate Authors:

  Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute

  Fack
  S-10044 Stockholm 70,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • PARAMESWARAN, V S
  • Venugopal, M S
  • Rao, AGM
  • Karim, E A
  • MURTHY, DSR
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 297-304

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Concrete ties; Inspection; Quality control; Railroad ties; Specifications; Tests
• Identifier Terms: Indian Railways
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00331554
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 12 1981 12:00AM