Prestressed monoblock concrete sleepers (PMCS) in railway ballasted tracks are the most
recommended type of sleepers. They experience damage at an increasing rate with the …

Unsupported sleepers or void zones in ballasted tracks are one of the most recent and
frequent track failures. The void failures have the property of intensive development that …

The standard approach to railway vehicle dynamic analysis includes running the vehicle
multibody models in rigid railway tracks. The wheel–rail contact, independently of the rolling …

In order to understand dynamic effect of the unsupported sleepers on railway substructure at
the meso-macroscopic scales, this paper develops a dynamics analysis framework …

Transition zones corresponding to the passage from railway tracks on embankment to
natural ground or settlement free structures are frequently problematic for maintenance …

The dynamic analysis of railway vehicles requires an accurate representation of the vehicle,
the track geometry and structure, and their interaction. Generally, flexible track models with …

In this study, a wheel-rail transient rolling contact model capable of accounting for the
nonlinear displacement-force properties of hanging sleepers is proposed. The sleeper …

This study addresses the contribution of spatial variance in the railway track support stiffness
to the expected long-term track degradation. Hereto, a novel frequency-domain model is …

With development of the heavy-haul railway, the increased axle load and traction weight
bring a significant challenge for the service performance and safety maintenance of the …

This paper presents a review of recent research investigations on the computer modelling of
flexible bodies in railroad vehicle systems. The paper will also discuss the influence of the …