In a context of increasing interoperability, several high speed trains, such as ICE, TGV, ETR 500, are likely to run on the same tracks, whereas they have been originally designed for specific and different railway networks. Due to different mechanical properties and structures, the dynamic behaviors, the aggressiveness of the vehicle on the track and the probabilities of exceeding security and...

Railways, which had long been neglected in Turkey, reclaim their significance once more with the new investments that are being made in recent years. In correlation with growing demand for transportation, the need for high-speed railway lines and for bridges and viaducts, which constitute integral components of railways, increases by the day. In many European states, there are railways that can...

Abstract This paper presents a non-contact measurement of the realistic catenary geometry deviation in Norwegian railway network through laser rangefinder. The random is included model to investigate its effect on pantograph–catenary interaction. dispersion longitudinal assumed follow Gaussian distribution. A power spectrum density represents vertical contact wire. Based Monte Carlo method, sev...

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...

The article discusses an important issue of railway line construction and maintenance, which fundamentally is the verification geometric parameters track. For this purpose, mobile measurements have been performed using a measuring platform with two properly arranged GNSS receivers, made it possible to determine base vector platform. functionality system was extended by IMU. In article, effect c...