the main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. therefore, railway track desig...

Rail corrugation is a common railway defect that involves diverse and complex factors. grinding also the most commonly used method to address corrugations. Through numerous irregularity tests one-third octave frequency spectrum analyses, this study determined characteristics development process for rail on high-speed tracks. The vibration transmission properties of train were tested using force...

Investigation of vertical vibrations of a railway turnout is important in designing track components under moving loads of trains. In this paper, the turnout is simulated by a linear finite element model with modal damping. A section of the turnout has a length of 36 sleeper spans surrounding the crossing. Rails and sleepers are modeled with uniform Rayleigh-&#10Timoshenko beam elements. The ra...

The leakage resistance of rail to earth is an important parameter of electrified railways, and it directly affects the characteristics of traction return current and railway signal track circuit. High speed railways mainly adopt the ballastless track in China, whose rail leakage resistance is very different compared to the resistance in the ordinary railway ballast track condition, usually has ...

The mitigation of traffic congestion is a growing problem globally. We test whether there is a relationship between rail provision and road performance in Japan, using aggregate level data. Our motivation for examining Japan is the comparatively high level of rail provision in Japan. A regression analysis of prefectural data from 2010 finds that the length of rail has a significant effect on av...

A vehicle body, two bogie frames and two wheelsets for each bogie frame are used to describe the railway vehicle model. The system dynamic is modeled using a 38-DOF system including the longitudinal, lateral, vertical, roll, pitch and yaw displacements. A heuristic nonlinear creep model and the elastic rail are used to simulate the wheel-rail contact. Stable movement and the corresponding limit...

The rail fastening system is an important part of a high-speed railway track. It is always critical to the operational safety and comfort of railway vehicles. Therefore, the condition detection of the rail fastening system, looseness or absence, is an important task in railway maintenance. However, the vision-based method cannot identify the severity of rail fastener looseness. In this paper, t...

In this paper a number of 4-bit, 8-operation arithmetic logic units (ALUs) are designed using the delayinsensitive NULL Convention Logic (NCL) paradigm, and are characterized in terms of speed and area. Both dualrail and quad-rail, pipelined and non-pipelined versions are developed, and the tradeoffs and design considerations for each are discussed. Comparing the various architectures shows tha...