"WHIPLASH PHENOMENON" IN RAIL/SLEEPER INTERACTION

During passing of the vehicle over the railway track, the wheel/rail contact force is transferred to sublayers by rail/sleeper and sleeper/ballast interactive forces. Procedure of force transmission depends on vehicle speed and amplitude of irregularities, track and vehicle parameters and so on. The results of calculation indicate that the up-lift force between rail and sleeper occur with increasing amplitude of rail corrugation, where it can be interpreted as a "whiplash phenomenon". In this paper, dynamic behaviour of train-track system is investigated under corrugation excitations and the rail/sleeper interactive forces are calculated in different amplitudes of corrugation. For the covering abstract see ITRD E123713.

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  ENGINEERING TECHNICS PRESS

  46 CLUNY GARDENS
  EDINBURGH,   United Kingdom  EH10 6BN
• Authors:
  • ZAKERI, J A
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 6 p.
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE RAILWAY ENGINEERING 2001, HELD LONDON, UK, 30 APRIL - 1 MAY 2001 - CDROM
  • Publisher: ENGINEERING TECHNICS PRESS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ballast (Railroads); Car wheels (Railroads); Conferences; Corrugations (Defects); Deformation; Loads; Railroad ties; Railroad tracks; Railroad trains; Rolling contact
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ballast
• ITRD Terms: 4559: Coarse aggregate; 8525: Conference; 5450: Contact (wheel rail); 3082: Corrugation; 5595: Deformation; 5567: Load; 1062: Railway track; 1060: Sleeper (railway); 1268: Train
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00985529
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-947644-45-8
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 4 2005 12:00AM