FROST HEAVING OF TRACK--CAUSES AND CURES

This paper reviews the causes and occurrences of track heaving and gives recommendations on means of economically reducing it. Suitable treatments and maintenance procedures can have significant effects on the amount of shimming required. With increasing use of concrete ties which can only be shimmed a limited amount, the question of how to reduce heaving is timely. Methods described incude the reducing of the penetration of the frost line; reducing the availability of water to the frost line; and reducing the frost susceptibility of soils with various chemicals.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Railway Engineering Association

  59 East Van Buren Street
  Chicago, IL  United States  60605
• Authors:
  • Peckover, F L
• Publication Date: 1978-1

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 145-173
• Serial:
  • AREA BULLETIN
  • Volume: 79
  • Issue Number: 666
  • Publisher: American Railway Engineering Association

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Chemical grouts; Deformation; Drainage; Electric insulating materials; Freezing; Frost heaving; Frost susceptibility; Insulating materials; Insulation blankets; Maintenance; Maintenance of way; Pore water; Properties of materials; Rail (Railroads); Railroad tracks; Sodium chloride; Sodium chloride; Soils; Subdrains; Subgrade (Pavements); Waterproofing
• Identifier Terms: Canadian National; Canadian National Railways
• Old TRIS Terms: Chemical grouting; Frost heave; Soil characteristics; Track deformation
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Maintenance and Preservation; Materials; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00177036
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 14 1978 12:00AM