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Technical Reports
A Preliminary Description of Stresses in Railroad Rail
Keywords: Plastic Flow; Flexural Stresses; Rail; Rail Stress; Stress; Flexural Stresses; Contact Stresses; Plastic Flow;
Abstract: One portion of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Track Performance Improvement Program is the development of engineering and analytic techniques required for the design...
Technical Reports
Evaluation of Analytical and Experimental Methodologies for the Characterization of Wheel/Rail Loads
Keywords: Track Loading, Track Degradation, Load Measurement Instrumentation
Abstract: This report has been prepared as part of the Improved Track Structures Research Program sponsored by the Office of Rail Safety Research of the Federal Railroad Administration. The...
Technical Reports
Computational Methods to Predict Railcar Response to Track Cross-Level Variations
Keywords: Rock and Roll
Abstract: The rocking response of railroad freight cars to track cross-level variations is studied using: (1) a reduced complexity digital simulation model, and (2) a quasi-linear...
Technical Reports
An Analysis of Thermal Track Buckling in the Lateral Plane
Keywords: Railroad Track, Thermal Buckling, Lateral Buckling of Tracks
Abstract: The post buckling equilibrium states are determined analytically. To obtain a consisten formulation of the problem, use is made of the principle of virtual displacements and the...
Technical Reports
The Effect of Imperfections on the Vertical Buckling of Railroad Tracks
Keywords: Buckling; Vertical buckling
Abstract: This report deals with an analytical prediction of the effect of geometric imperfections on the post-buckling characteristics of railroad tracks. The analysis is restricted to the...